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ج U+062C, ج
ARABIC LETTER JEEM
ث
Arabic ح
U+FE9D, ﺝ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM ISOLATED FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FE9E, ﺞ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM FINAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FE9F, ﺟ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM INITIAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FEA0, ﺠ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM MEDIAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Arabic

Etymology

From the Nabataean letter 𐢄 (l, gimel), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤂 (l, gimel), from an uncertain Egyptian hieroglyph (𓌙?). See also Classical Syriac ܓ (l, gimel), Hebrew ג (l, gimel), Ancient Greek Γ (G), Latin C and Latin G.

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 () and followed by ح ().

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

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ج (transliteration needed)

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

Burushaski

Pronunciation

Letter

ج (transliteration needed)

  1. The ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet

Chinese

Pronunciation

Letter

ج

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

Egyptian Arabic

Pronunciation

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج (gīm)

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See also

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

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

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

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

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

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ج
Cyrillic Ж, ж
Latin J, j
Yañalif Ç, ç

Pronunciation

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

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

Khowar

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج (jīm)

  1. The seventh letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ث
  • Next letter: چ

Kyrgyz

Pronunciation

Letter

ج (je)

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

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: يو
  • Next letter: ز

Malay

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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

Pashto

Pronunciation

Letter

ج (jim)

  1. The seventh letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ث
  • Next letter: ځ

Persian

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Iran):(file)

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.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /d͡ʒeː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (jīm)

  1. The seventh letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ث (s̱e)
  • Next letter: چ (ce)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Letter

ج

  1. (Bosnia, obsolete) The seventh letter of the Bosnian Arabic alphabet (Arebica), It is preceded by the letter د (D) and is followed by the letter ݗ (Đ). It corresponds to the modern-day (Cyrillic Џ)

Sindhi

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج (jīm)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: پ
  • Next letter: ڄ

Urdu

Pronunciation

Letter

ج (jīm)

  1. The seventh letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

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

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

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

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ

See also

  • Previous letter: اِ
  • Next letter: ك