Ṯāʾ

Arabic letter
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Ṯāʾ (ث) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the 22 from the Phoenician alphabet. The others are ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ and ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic, it stands for the voiceless dental fricative [θ], also found in English as the "th" in words such as "thank" and "thin". In Persian, Urdu and Kurdish, it is pronounced as "s" as in "sister" in English.

Ṯāʾ
PhoenicianṮāʾ
Hebrew
-
AramaicṮāʾ
Syriac
-
Arabic
ث
Phonemic representationθ (t, s)
Position in alphabet23
Numerical value500
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek-
Latin-
Cyrillic-
Ṯāʾ
ث
Usage
Writing systemArabic script
TypeAbjad
Language of originArabic language
Phonetic usageθ
Alphabetical position4
History
Development
  • ث
Other
← Taw

Ṯāʾ Ḫāʾ →

Phoenician X
Hebrew -
Aramaic 𐡕
Syriac -
Arabic ث
Phonemic representation θ (t, s)
Position in alphabet 23
Numerical value 500
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek -
Latin -
Cyrillic -
Ṯāʾ
ث
Usage
Writing system Arabic script
Type Abjad
Language of origin Arabic language
Phonetic usage θ
Alphabetical position 4
History
Development
  • ث
Other
Writing direction Right-to-left

In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت). Its numerical value is 500.