ذ

Etymology
Derived from, and originally written as such (in ) by analogy with Nabatean tradition, as Nabatean cognates of Arabic words with /ð/ were indiscriminately spelled using.

Letter

 * 1) The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is, and is preceded by  and followed by.

Symbol

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by  and followed by.

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Letter

 * 1) The twelfth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

Letter

 * 1) The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by  and followed by.

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Khowar abjad.

Letter

 * 1) The fifteenth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Etymology
From the Arabic letter of the same form, with the phonetic value [ð].

Pronunciation
Phoneme:

Letter name:

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its name is.

Usage notes
In Classical Persian, the letters' phoneme was irregularly pronounced as [ð] or as [z]. Modern varieties of Persian lack the letter's original Arabic phoneme [ð] entirely, and have shifted the phoneme [ð] to [z].

Alternative forms

 * letter:

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of Punjabi in the  script.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fourth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Urdu abjad.