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]
ﺝ U+FE9D, ﺝ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM ISOLATED FORM
← ﺜ
[U+FE9C]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺞ →
[U+FE9E]
ﺞ U+FE9E, ﺞ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM FINAL FORM
← ﺝ
[U+FE9D]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺟ →
[U+FE9F]
ﺟ U+FE9F, ﺟ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM INITIAL FORM
← ﺞ
[U+FE9E]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺠ →
[U+FEA0]
ﺠ U+FEA0, ﺠ
ARABIC LETTER JEEM MEDIAL FORM
← ﺟ
[U+FE9F]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺡ →
[U+FEA1]

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): [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].

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

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/, [d͡ʒ]

Letter

ج (j)

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

Burushaski

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʑ/, [dʑ~ʑ]

Letter

ج

  1. The ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet

Chinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂ/, [ʈ͡ʂ~ɖ͡ʐ]

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

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (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).

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

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 formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

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

Kazakh

Cyrillic Ж, ж (J, j)
Arabic ج
Latin

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

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

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 formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

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

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

  • Previous letter: يو‎
  • Next letter: 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 ‎

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

See also

Pashto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (jim)

  1. The seventh letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ث‎
  • Next letter: ځ‎

Persian

Pronunciation

  • (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.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [d͡ʒ, d͡ʑ]

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

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

  • Previous letter: پ‎
  • Next letter: ڄ‎

Urdu

Pronunciation

Letter

ج • (jīm)

  1. The seventh letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ث‎
  • Next letter: چ‎

Uyghur

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (je)

  1. The sixth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

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 formFinal formMedial formInitial form
جـجـجـجـ

See also

  • Previous letter: اِ‎
  • Next letter: ك‎
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