Že


Žayn used to represent the phoneme, is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, based on zayn 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, Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic.
In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter ج ǧīm is used for.

Character encodings

In other scripts

[Devanagari]

In Devanagari the letter झ़ 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.