ج

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d͡ʒ/

• It has many standard pronunciations in Modern Standard Arabic, which can also reflect the pronunciation in national varieties of Arabic:
  • IPA: [d͡ʒ] in most of the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, parts of the Levant, parts of Egypt and in Central Algeria.
  • IPA: [ʒ] in most of the Levant and most of north Africa;
  • IPA: [ɡ] in most of Egypt and west Yemen and parts of Oman (e.g. Muscat dialect);
  • IPA: [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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /d͡ʒ/, [d͡ʒ]

Letter

ج (j)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʑ/, [dʑ~ʑ]

Letter

ج

1. The ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʈ͡ʂ/, [ʈ͡ʂ~ɖ͡ʐ]

Letter

ج

1. The seventh letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɡiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /ɡ/

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج ‎ • (gīm)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d͡ʒ/
• (allophones): IPA: [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).

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (j)

1. The tenth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /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.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /d͡ʒim/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (jīm)

1. The seventh letter of the Khowar abjad.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /dʒe/
• (phoneme): IPA: /dʒ/

Letter

ج • (je)

1. The eighth letter of the Kyrgyz in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ж

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA: [d͡ʒem]
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [d͡ʒ]
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial, obsolete) IPA: [d͡ʒ], [t͡ʃ]
• (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [t͡ʃ]

Letter

ج / جـ / ـجـ / ـج ‎

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (jim)

1. The seventh letter of the Pashto alphabet.

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [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)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɟiːm/
• (phoneme): IPA: /ɟ/

Letter

ج (jīm)

1. The eleventh letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒiːm/
• (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج • (jīm)

1. The seventh letter of the Urdu abjad.

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ج • (je)

1. The sixth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /d͡ʒí/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d͡ʒ/

Letter

ج (j)

1. The eleventh letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script j.