Že


Že or Zhe, used to represent the phoneme, is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on [Zayin|] with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ,پ and گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ. In name and shape, it is a variant of ze. Its numerical value is 4000.
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 Kashmiri, this letter is called "tse" and represents the phoneme.
In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter ج is used for. In Moroccan Arabic, the letter ژ is sometimes used to represent emphatic Z, such as in the word بژ meaning "children", as opposed to the normal ز, in order to differentiate between words that would look similar.
When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ז׳.

In other scripts

Devanagari

In Devanagari the letters and are used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. टेलीविझ़न / टेलीविश़न ṭēlivižan 'television'. The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic.

Bengali

In Bengali the sound of /ʒ/ may be represented as জ়়, i.e. the letter Ja with two dots.

Cyrillic

The letter ж, common in some Slavic languages, has an equivalent sound to the "s" in "television" e.g. Zharkov.