zayin
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn , Aramaic zain 𐡆, Syriac zayn ܙ, and Arabic zāy . It represents the sound . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪘, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z class=skin-invert|14px|Z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
Key facts
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- 𐡆
- Grapheme.fam3
- 𐢉
- Semitic letter.letname
- Zayin
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Waw (letter)
- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Waw
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Heth
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Heth
- Semitic letter.archar
- ز
- Semitic letter.sychar
- ܙ
- Semitic letter.hechar
- ז
- Semitic letter.smchar
- ࠆ
- Semitic letter.amchar
- 𐡆
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Arabic zāy
- Variant
- Hebrew zayin
- Significance
- Numerical value (gematria)
- Use in Torah scroll
- Syriac zain
- Character encodings
- See also
- References
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn , Aramaic zain 𐡆, Syriac zayn ܙ, and Arabic zāy . It represents the sound . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪘, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z class=skin-invert|14px|Z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
==Origin== The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called , may not have been based on a hieroglyph, and may have depicted a "fetter".