Also known as ARABIC LETTER TCHEH, tcheh, che, ce, čīm
Arabic letter tcheh (U+0686) or čīm, used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Khowar, Uyghur, etc.
Key facts
- Writing system
- Arabic script
- Type
- Abjad
- Language of origin
- Persian language
- Sound values
- / tʃ / , / c /
- Development
- 𓌙 𐤂 𐡂 𐢄 ح ج چ
- Transliterations
- ch, č
- Writing direction
- Right-to-left
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Che, Če, Cheem, or Čeem (چ) is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent [t͡ʃ]. The letter derives from Jīm (ج) by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts.
It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi, Kurdish, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, Malay (Jawi), Javanese (Pegon), and other Indo-Iranian languages. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added to the Arabic script, which are Že (ژ), Pe (پ), and Gaf (گ), in addition the obsolete Ve (ڤ). Its numerical value is 3000 (see Abjad numerals).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “چ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.