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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- Character encodings
- In other scripts
- Devanagari
- Bengali
- Cyrillic
- See also
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ژ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.