Samekh or Simketh is the fifteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ṣāmek , Hebrew ˈSamekh , Aramaic Semkath , Syriac Semkaṯ , representing . The Arabic alphabet, however, uses a letter based on Phoenician Šīn to represent (see there); however, that glyph takes Samekh's place in the traditional Abjadi order of the Arabic alphabet.