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Sign in to saveResh is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš , Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪇, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or , but also or in Hebrew and some North Mesopotamian Arabic dialects.
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- Shin (letter)
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10 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Arabic rāʾ
- Derived letter in other languages
- Hebrew resh
- As abbreviation
- Syriac resh
- Character encodings
- See also
- References
- External links
Resh is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš , Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪇, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or , but also or in Hebrew and some North Mesopotamian Arabic dialects.
In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents) is visually quite similar to the letter dalet (and its equivalents). In the Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar that now they are only distinguished by dots; resh has a dot above it, and the otherwise identical dalet has a dot below. In the Arabic alphabet, has a longer tail than . In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded single stroke while dalet is two strokes that meet at right angles.