Diacritic
As a diacritic, the Geresh is written immediately after (left of) the letter it modifies. It indicates three sounds native to speakers of Modern Hebrew that are common in loan words and slang: as in judge, as in measure and as in church. In transliteration of Arabic, it indicates Arabic phonemes which are usually allophones in Modern Hebrew: is distinguished from and is distinguished from . Finally, it indicates other sounds foreign to the phonology Modern Hebrew speakers and used exclusively for the transliteration of foreign words: as in then, as in thin, ; and, in some transliteration systems, also, and .
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