Ṯāʾ

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.
← Taw
Ṯāʾ 
Ḫāʾ →PhoenicianXHebrew-Aramaic𐡕Syriac-ArabicثPhonemic representationθ (t, s)Position in alphabet23Numerical value500Alphabetic derivatives of the PhoenicianGreek -Latin -Cyrillic -
ṮāʾثUsageWriting systemArabic scriptTypeAbjadLanguage of originArabic languagePhonetic usageθAlphabetical position4HistoryDevelopment ثOtherWriting directionRight-to-left
In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت). Its numerical value is 500.
Category:Letters (alphabet)
Category:Arabic language