Che, Če, Cheem, or Čeem () is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent . The letter derives from () by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts.
It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi, Kurdish, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, Malay (Jawi), Javanese (Pegon), and other Indo-Iranian languages. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added to the Arabic script, which are Že (), Pe (), and Gaf (), in addition the obsolete Ve (). Its numerical value is 3000 (see Abjad numerals).
In Arabic
The letter Che () can be used to transcribe in Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic dialects, where they have that sound natively as in "" (dog) instead of "" . Since the sound is not part of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)'s phonology; In most of the rest of Arabic-speaking geographic regions, the combination of () is more likely used to transliterate the sound which is often realized as two consonants (+) as in "" (Chad) and "" (Czech Republic). In Moroccan Arabic, the sound from Spanish is transliterated with the letter .
In Egypt, this letter represents , which can be a reduction of , It is called "Gīm with three dots" (, ) there. The pronunciation is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri.
In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual or triscripted, this letter represents on roadsigns when transcribing Hebrew place names. It has also been used as in Lebanon for transliteration such as "" (The Gambia) and "" (Google).أطلس دول العالم الكبير
Character encodings
See also
Gaf () Pe () Ve () Že () Č Che (Cyrillic)
References