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Also known as ẓā’, za,

', or ' (), is the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 900 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪜‎‎, and South Arabian .

Key facts

Semitic letter.letname
Ẓāʾ
Semitic letter.previouslink
Ḍād
Semitic letter.previousletter
Ḍād
Semitic letter.nextlink
Ghayn
Semitic letter.nextletter
Ghayn
Semitic letter.archar
ظ
Semitic letter.ipa
ðˤ, (zˤ, dˤ)
Semitic letter.num
27
Semitic letter.gem
900
Grapheme.name
Ẓāʾ ظاء
Grapheme.letter
ظ
Grapheme.script
Arabic script
Grapheme.type
Abjad
Grapheme.language
Arabic language
Grapheme.phonemes
(standard) , (dialectal)
Grapheme.alphanumber
17
Grapheme.direction
Right-to-left
Grapheme.fam2
𐤈

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