Che (Persian Letter) - Other Uses

Other Uses

In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual, the letter is used on roadsigns to represent, when transcribing Hebrew or foreign names of places. In Egypt, the letter represents which can be a reduction of /d͡ʒ/. It can be used to transcribe of Persian Gulf: Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic, where they have that sound natively. In these countries and the rest of Arabic-speaking geographic regions, the combination of tāʾ-šīn (تش) is more likely used to transliterate the /t͡ʃ/ sound which is often realized as two consonants (+) elsewhere; this letter combination is used for loanwords and foreign names, including those of Spanish origin in Moroccan Arabic. In the case of Moroccan Arabic, the letter ڜ‎ is used instead to transliterate the /t͡ʃ/ sound aside from تش, this letter derives from šīn (ش) with additional 3 dots below.

For تش:

For ڜ‎: