Že

Žayn (ژ) used to represent the phoneme /ʒ/, is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, based on zayn (ز) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the four letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ ,پ and گ.

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 most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter ج ǧīm is used for /ʒ/.

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ژ‎	ـژ‎	ـژ‎	ژ‎

Character encodings

Character information

Preview	ژ
Unicode name	PERSIAN LETTER JEH
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	1688	U+0698
UTF-8	218 152	DA 98
Numeric character reference	ژ	ژ

In other scripts

Devanagari

In Devanagari the letter झ़ (jha with a nuqta or dot) is used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. टेलिविझ़न ṭēlivizhan "television". The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic ژ.

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

• پ - Pe (Perso-Arabic)
• ﭺ - Che (Perso-Arabic)
• ﭪ - Vāʼ / Ve
• گ - Gaf (Perso-Arabic)