Zayin
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Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the
].The Phoenician letter gave rise to the
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An alternative view is that it is based on the "
The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. In Mishnaic Hebrew, zayin (זין) means "sword", and the verb lezayen (לזיין) means "to arm".
Arabic zāy
The letter is named zāy. It has two forms, depending on its position in the word:
Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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Glyph form: (Help) |
ز | ـز | ـز | ز |
The similarity to rāʼ
Persian alphabet |
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Perso-Arabic script |
The same letter has another name –
Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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Glyph form: (Help) |
ژ | ـژ | ـژ | ژ |
Hebrew zayin
Orthographic variants | ||||
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Various print fonts | Cursive Hebrew | Rashi script | ||
Serif | Sans-serif | Monospaced
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ז | ז | ז |
In modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of zayin, out of all the letters, is 0.88%.
Hebrew spelling: זַיִן
In modern Hebrew, the combination ז׳ (zayin followed by a geresh) is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote [ʒ] as in vision.
Significance
Numerical value (gematria)
In gematria, zayin represents the number seven,[3] and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years it means 7000 (i.e. זתשנד in numbers would be the future date 7754).
Use in Torah scroll
Zayin, in addition to
Syriac zain
Zain is a consonant with the /z/ sound which is a voiced alveolar fricative.
Character encodings
Preview | ז | ز | ܙ | ࠆ | ||||
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Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN | ARABIC LETTER ZAIN | SYRIAC LETTER ZAIN | SAMARITAN LETTER ZEN | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1494 | U+05D6 | 1586 | U+0632 | 1817 | U+0719 | 2054 | U+0806 |
UTF-8 | 215 150 | D7 96 | 216 178 | D8 B2 | 220 153 | DC 99 | 224 160 134 | E0 A0 86 |
Numeric character reference | ז |
ז |
ز |
ز |
ܙ |
ܙ |
ࠆ |
ࠆ |
Preview | 𐎇 | 𐡆 | 𐤆 | |||
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Unicode name | UGARITIC LETTER ZETA | IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER ZAYIN | PHOENICIAN LETTER ZAI | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 66439 | U+10387 | 67654 | U+10846 | 67846 | U+10906 |
UTF-8 | 240 144 142 135 | F0 90 8E 87 | 240 144 161 134 | F0 90 A1 86 | 240 144 164 134 | F0 90 A4 86 |
UTF-16 | 55296 57223 | D800 DF87 | 55298 56390 | D802 DC46 | 55298 56582 | D802 DD06 |
Numeric character reference | 𐎇 |
𐎇 |
𐡆 |
𐡆 |
𐤆 |
𐤆 |
See also
- ڤ - Ve
- پ - Pe
- گ - Gāf
- چ - Che
References
- ^ Colless, Brian E. (2014). "The origin of the alphabet: an examination of the Goldwasser hypothesis" (PDF). Antiguo Oriente. 12: 71–104.
- ^ Cross, F. M. (1980) Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/1356511
- ^ "Gematria Chart".