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Že or Zhe (Script error: No such module "Lang".), used to represent the phoneme Template:IPAslink, is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being Script error: No such module "Lang". ,Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang"., in addition the obsolete Script error: No such module "Lang"..[1] 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.
In Kashmiri, this letter is called "tse" and represents the phoneme [t͡s].
In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". is used for Template:IPAslink. In Moroccan Arabic, the letter ژ is sometimes used to represent emphatic Z, such as in the word Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning "children", as opposed to the normal ز, in order to differentiate between words that would look similar (for example Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning "forcing, to force").[2]
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When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ז׳.
Character encodings
In other scripts
Devanagari
In Devanagari the letters <templatestyles src="Script/styles.css" />झ़Template:Script/doc/id-unk and <templatestyles src="Script/styles.css" />श़Template:Script/doc/id-unk (with a nuqta) are used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'television'. The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic Script error: No such module "Lang"..
Bengali
In Bengali the sound of /ʒ/ may be represented as জ়়, i.e. the letter Ja with two dots.
Cyrillic
The letter ж, common in some Slavic languages, has an equivalent sound to the "s" in "television" e.g. Zharkov (Russian Cyrillic: Жарков).
See also
References
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