Zayin

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Zayin
Arabic	Syriac	Hebrew	Aramaic	Phoenician
ﺯ	ܙ	‎
Phonemic representation (IPA):				z
Position in alphabet:				7
Gematria/Abjad value:				7

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ‎, Syriac ܙ and Arabic alphabet ז transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">zāī ז. It represents a voiced alveolar fricative, IPA /z/.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z

, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.

The Proto-Canaanite glyph appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".

Arabic zayn

Arabic alphabet
ז ﺍ ﺏ ﺕ ﺙ ﺝ
ﺡ ﺥ ﺩ ﺫ ﺭ ﺭ
? ﺵ ﺹ ﺽ ﻁ ﻅ
ﻉ ﻍ ﻑ ﻕ ﻙ
ﻝ ﻡ ﻥ ه‍ ﻭ
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The letter is named zaynʼ, and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:

glyph
stand alone	at the beginning	in the middle	at the end
ز	ز?	ـز?	ـز

.

The similarity to ر is likely a function of the original Syriac forms converging to a single symbol, requiring that one of them be distinguished as a dot; a similar process occurred to ǧim and ḥa'.

Zāī

A variant of Arabic ז. is ژ /ʒ/, used in e.g. the Uyghur language (see K̡ona Yezik).

Hebrew Zayin

Hebrew alphabet
א‎ א‎ ב‎ ג‎ ד‎ ה‎
ו‎ ז‎ ח‎ ט‎ י‎
כך‎ ל‎ מם‎ נן‎ ס‎ ע‎
פף‎ צץ‎ ק‎ ר‎ ש‎
History Transliteration Niqqud Dagesh Gematria Cantillation Numeration

Syriac alphabet
	ܐ	ܒ	ܓ	ܕ
ܗ	ܘ	ܙ	ܚ	ܛ	ܝ
ܟܟ	ܠ	ܡܡ	ܢܢ	ܣ	ܥ
ܦ	ܨ	ܩ	ܪ	ܫ	ܬ

An apostrophe can be placed in front of Zayin ('ז), making it represent /ʒ/.

Significance

In gematria, Zayin represents the number seven, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years, it means 7000 (i.e. זתשנד in numbers would be the date 7754).

Zayin is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See Shin, Ayin, Teth, Nun, Gimel, and Tzadi.

Arabic abjad

Unicode range U+0600 to U+06FF
U+0750 to U+077F
U+FB50 to U+FDFF
U+FE70 to U+FEFF
ISO 15924 Arab (#160)

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Syriac alphabet
Child systems Sogdian   →Orkhon (Turkic)
    →Old Hungarian
  →Uyghur
    →Mongolian
Nabataean
  → Arabic
Georgian (disputed)
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This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. For Hebrew diacritical marks, see niqqud (for the vowel points) and cantillation.

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Aramaic alphabet
Child systems Hebrew
Nabataean
Syriac
Palmyrenean
Mandaic
Brāhmī
Pahlavi
Sogdian
Kharoṣṭhī

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Phoenician alphabet
Child systems Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Many hypothesized others
Sister systems South Arabian alphabet
Unicode range U+10900 to U+1091F
ISO 15924 Phnx

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International Phonetic Alphabet

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The International
Phonetic Alphabet
History
Nonstandard symbols
Extended IPA
Naming conventions
IPA for English The
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Gematria (Heb. גימטריה, from the Greek γεωμετρία) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive meaning or relative relationship.
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Abjad numerals are a decimal numeral system which was used in the Arabic-speaking world prior to the use of the Hindu-Arabic numerals from the 8th century, and in parallel with the latter until Modern times.
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The history of the alphabet begins in Ancient Egypt, more than a millennium into the history of writing. The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BCE to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets), and was derived from the
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Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and Phoenicia in Greek and Latin.
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Aramaic}}}
Writing system: Aramaic abjad, Syriac abjad, Hebrew abjad, Mandaic alphabet with a handfull of inscriptions found in Demotic^[2] and Chinese^[3] characters.
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Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad
Official status
Official language of: Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether a sibilant or non-sibilant fricative is being described.
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Greek alphabet
Child systems Gothic
Glagolitic
Cyrillic
Coptic
Old Italic alphabet
Latin alphabet

ISO 15924 Grek

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Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin . Letters that arose from Zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З (Ze).
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (IPA: /zɛd/), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below).
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Cyrillic alphabet

Sister systems Latin alphabet
Coptic alphabet
Armenian
Unicode range U+0400 to U+052F
ISO 15924 Cyrl

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Ze (З, з) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/. It's easily confusable with the figure three (3), as in the stages of the N1 rocket.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs
Child systems Hieratic

ISO 15924 Egyp

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Egyptian hieroglyphs (sometimes called hieroglyphics
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Alif (Arabic: ﺍ, pronounced ʾalif) is the first letter of the Arabic alphabet.
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Bet, Beth, or Vet is the second letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew
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Taw or Tav is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew
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Gimel is the third letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew
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Dalet (
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