Also known as ARABIC LETTER JEH, zhe, že, žayn
Že or Zhe (), used to represent the phoneme , is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on Zayin| () with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being , and , in addition the obsolete . In name and shape, it is a variant of ze. Its numerical value is 4000 (see Abjad numerals).
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- že
- Grapheme.letter
- ژ
- Grapheme.script
- Arabic script
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Persian language
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 14
- Grapheme.direction
- Right-to-left
- Grapheme.fam2
- 𐡆
- Grapheme.fam3
- 𐢉
- Grapheme.fam4
- ر
- Grapheme.fam5
- ز
- Grapheme.fam1
- 𐤆
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- Uyghur - Arabic script - isolated form - ژ (IPA ʒ).svg
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- HTML entity
- ژ
- Unicode character name
- ARABIC LETTER JEH
- Unicode character
- ژ
- Unicode code point
- 0698
- Commons category
- ژ
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Že or Zhe (), used to represent the phoneme , is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on Zayin| () with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being , and , in addition the obsolete . In name and shape, it is a variant of ze. Its numerical value is 4000 (see Abjad numerals).
It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish (j in the modern Turkish alphabet), Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic.