ج

ج U+062C, ج ARABIC LETTER JEEM ← ث Arabic ح →

Arabic

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

• It has many standard pronunciations in Modern Standard Arabic, which can also reflect the pronunciation in national varieties of Arabic:
  • IPA^(key): in most of the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, parts of the Levant, parts of Egypt and in Central Algeria.
  • IPA^(key): in most of the Levant and most of north Africa;
  • IPA^(key): in most of Egypt and west Yemen and parts of Oman (e.g. Muscat dialect);
  • IPA^(key): in Sudan (with allophones) and south Yemen, and most likely in Classical Arabic.

When reciting the Quran, it is customarily pronounced as .

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jīm)

1. The fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is جِيم (jīm), and is preceded by ث (ṯ) and followed by ح (ḥ).

Symbol

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jīm)

1. The third letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by ب (b) and followed by د (d).

Noun

ج

1. (lexicography) Abbreviation of جَمْع (jamʕ, “plural”).

See also

• (Arabic script letters) ا (ʔalif), ب (bāʔ), ت (tāʔ), ث (ṯāʔ), ج (jīm), ح (ḥāʔ), خ (ḵāʔ), د (dāl), ذ (ḏāl), ر (rāʔ), ز (zāy), س (sīn), ش (šīn), ص (ṣād), ض (ḍād), ط (ṭāʔ), ظ (ẓāʔ), ع (ʕayn), غ (ḡayn), ف (fāʔ), ق (qāf), ك (kāf), ل (lām), م (mīm), ن (nūn), ه (hāʔ), و (wāw), ي (yāʔ)
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Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/,

Letter

ج (transliteration needed)

1. The seventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic alphabet

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʑ/,

Letter

ج (transliteration needed)

1. The ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet

Chinese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂ/,

Letter

ج

1. The seventh letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

Egyptian Arabic

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɡiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɡ/

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (gīm)

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See also

• چ

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/
• (allophones): IPA^(key): ,

Letter

ج • (jīm)

1. The fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is جِيم (jīm), and is preceded by ث (ṯāʔ) and followed by ح (ḥāʔ).

Forms

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (j)

1. The tenth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ث (s)
• Next letter: چ (c)

Kazakh

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/, /ʒ/

Letter

ج • (j)

1. The fifth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ж or sometimes the digraph Дж.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ت
• Next letter: چ
• (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, پ, ﺕ, ﺝ, ﭺ, ﺡ, ﺩ, ﺭ, ﺯ, ﺱ, ﺵ, ﻉ, ﻑ, ﻕ, ك, گ, ڭ, ﻝ, ﻡ, ﻥ, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي.

Khowar

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒim/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (jīm)

1. The seventh letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ث
• Next letter: چ

Kyrgyz

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /dʒe/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Letter

ج • (je)

1. The eighth letter of the Kyrgyz in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ж

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: يو
• Next letter: ز

Malay

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ج

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key):
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA^(key):
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial, obsolete) IPA^(key): ,
• (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA^(key):

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج

1. The fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• (Arabic script letters) ا,‎ ب,‎ ت,‎ ة,‎ ث,‎ ج,‎ چ,‎ ح,‎ خ,‎ د,‎ ذ,‎ ر,‎ ز,‎ س,‎ ش,‎ ص,‎ ض,‎ ط,‎ ظ,‎ ع,‎ غ,‎ ڠ,‎ ف,‎ ڤ,‎ ق,‎ ک,‎ ݢ,‎ گ,‎ ل,‎ م,‎ ن,‎ و,‎ ۏ,‎ ه,‎ ہ,‎ ھ,‎ ء,‎ ي,‎ ى,‎ ی,‎ ے,‎ ڽ

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /dʒim/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Letter

ج • (jim)

1. The seventh letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ث
• Next letter: ځ

Persian

Pronunciation

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Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jîm)

1. The sixth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ث and followed by چ. Its name is جیم.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Letter

ج

1. (Bosnia, obsolete) The seventh letter of the Bosnan Arabic alphabet (Arebica). Corresponds to the modern-day Đ and Dž (Cyrillic Ђ and Џ)

Sindhi

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɟiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɟ/

Letter

ج • (jīm)

1. The eleventh letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: پ
• Next letter: ڄ

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (jīm)

1. The seventh letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ث (s)
• Next letter: چ (c)

Uyghur

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒe/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (je)

1. The sixth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: ت (t)
• Next letter: چ (ch)

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒí/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (j)

1. The eleventh letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script j.

Forms

See also

• Previous letter: اِ
• Next letter: ك