Že

Žayn (ژ) used to represent the phoneme /ʒ/, is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, based on zayn (ز) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the four letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ ,پ and گ.

Persian alphabet
ا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی
Perso Arabic script

It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish (j in the modern Turkish alphabet), Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic.

In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter ج ǧīm is used for /ʒ/.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
(Help)		 ژ‎ ـژ‎ ـژ‎ ژ‎

Character encodings
Character information
Previewژ
Unicode namePERSIAN LETTER JEH
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode1688U+0698
UTF-8218 152DA 98
Numeric character referenceژژ

In other scripts

Devanagari

In Devanagari the letter झ़ (jha with a nuqta or dot) is used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. टेलिविझ़न ṭēlivizhan "television". The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic ژ.

Cyrillic

The letter ж, common in some Slavic languages, has an equivalent sound to the "s" in "television" e.g. Zharkov (Russian Cyrillic: Жарков).

gollark: ... maybe these are just hard problems which they're working on, rather than some kind of conspiracy?
gollark: It seems like the problem here might be lack of systems to track and respond to demand, since I think lots of people probably would be willing to pay some money for a ventilator to be available if they need it during this pandemic.
gollark: Ones higher than LEO will stick around for a while. They won't *work* for a hundred years though.
gollark: I imagine you can probably pick out lots of bad things in any generation's time-spent-growing-up.
gollark: Cool how .money is a top level domain.

See also
  • پ - Pe (Perso-Arabic)
  • ﭺ - Che (Perso-Arabic)
  • ﭪ - Vāʼ / Ve
  • گ - Gaf (Perso-Arabic)

References
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