Ṯāʾ
Arabic letter
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 | |
|---|---|
| Phoenician |  |
| Hebrew | - |
| Aramaic |  |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
|
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Right-to-left |
In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت). Its numerical value is 500.