ج

See also: چ, ح, خ, and Appendix:Variations of "g"

ج U+062C, ج
ARABIC LETTER JEEM
ث
[U+062B]
Arabic ح
[U+062D]
Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ج ـج ـجـ جـ
U+FE9D, ﺝ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM ISOLATED FORM

[U+FE9C]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FE9E]
U+FE9E, ﺞ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM FINAL FORM

[U+FE9D]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FE9F]
U+FE9F, ﺟ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM INITIAL FORM

[U+FE9E]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEA0]
U+FEA0, ﺠ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM MEDIAL FORM

[U+FE9F]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEA1]

Acehnese

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ɟim]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [ɟ]

Letter

ج (jim) (no case)

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

See also

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): [d͡ʒ] in most of the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, parts of the Levant, parts of Egypt and in Central Algeria.
    • IPA(key): [ʒ] in most of the Levant and most of north Africa;
    • IPA(key): [ɡ] in most of Egypt and west Yemen and parts of Oman (e.g. Muscat dialect);
    • IPA(key): [ɟ] in Sudan (with allophones) and south Yemen, and most likely in Classical Arabic.

When reciting the Quran, it is customarily pronounced as [d͡ʒ].

The letter is also used to represent the /t͡ʃ/ sound, especially by Gulf Arabic speakers.

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jīm) (no case)

  1. The fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet, called جِيم (jīm) and written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث () and followed by ح ().

Symbol

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jīm)

  1. The third numeral symbol of the Arabic alphabet (traditional abjad order, used for list numbering), written in the Arabic script; preceded by ب (b) and followed by د (d).

Noun

ج

  1. (lexicography) abbreviation of جَمْع (jamʕ, plural)
  2. abbreviation of جُزْء (juzʔ, part)

See also

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/, [d͡ʒ]

Letter

ج (j) (no case)

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

Burushaski

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʑ/, [dʑ~ʑ]

Letter

ج (j) (no case)

  1. The ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Chinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂ/, [ʈ͡ʂ~ɖ͡ʐ]

Letter

ج (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad, written in the Arabic script.

Egyptian Arabic

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (gīm) (no case)

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See also

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːm/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/
  • (allophones): IPA(key): [d͡ʒ], [ʒ]

Letter

ج • (jīm) (no case)

  1. The fifth letter of the Hijazi Arabic alphabet, called جِيم and written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث (ṯāʔ) and followed by ح (ḥāʔ).

See also

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (j) (no case)

  1. The tenth letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث and followed by چ.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ج
Cyrillic Ж, ж
Latin J, j

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʒim/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

ج • (j) (no case, Cyrillic equivalent Ж or ж or (sometimes) Дж or дж)

  1. The fifth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ت and followed by چ.

See also

Khowar

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج (jīm) (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Khowar alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث and followed by چ.

Kyrgyz

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (je) (no case, Cyrillic equivalent Ж or ж)

  1. The eighth letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by يو and followed by ز.

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [d͡ʒem]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [d͡ʒ]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial, obsolete) IPA(key): [d͡ʒ], [t͡ʃ]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [t͡ʃ]

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج (no case)

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

See also

Old Ruthenian

Letter

ج • () (no case)[1]

  1. (Middle Belarusian Arabica) A letter of the Old Ruthenian alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

References

  1. ^ Antonovich (1968), page 192: “ج

Pahari-Potwari

Etymology

From Classical Persian ج (jīm), from Arabic ج (jīm).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /d͡ʒiː.m/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (jīm) (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Pahari-Potwari alphabet, written in the Shahmukhi script; preceded by ث (s̱e) and followed by چ (ce).

Pashto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (jim) (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث and followed by ځ.

Persian

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج • (jîm) (no case)

  1. The sixth letter of the Persian alphabet, called جیم and written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث and followed by چ.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

  • Gurmukhi letter: (jajjā)
  • (letter name): جیم (jīm)

Etymology

From Classical Persian ج (jīm), from Arabic ج (jīm).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /d͡ʒiː.m/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (jīm) (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Punjabi alphabet, written in the Shahmukhi script; preceded by ث (s̱e) and followed by چ (ce).

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [d͡ʒ]

Letter

ج (no case, Latin equivalent or , Cyrillic equivalent Џ or џ)

  1. (Bosnia, obsolete) The seventh letter of the Bosnian Arabic alphabet (Arebica), written in the Arabic script; preceded by د and followed by ݗ.

Sindhi

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (jīm) (no case)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Sindhi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by پ and followed by ڄ.

See also

Soqotri

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

ج (g) (no case)

  1. The Soqotri letter g

Urdu

Pronunciation

Letter

ج • (jīm) (no case)

  1. The seventh letter of the Urdu alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ث and followed by چ.

Uyghur

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (je) (no case)

  1. The sixth letter of the Uyghur alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ت and followed by چ.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج (transliteration needed) (no case, Latin equivalent j)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Yoruba alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by اِ and followed by ك.