Že

Že, or žayn/žāy (), is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet, based on () with two additional diacritic dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic. However, it might be used in Arabic texts to represent other phonemes when writing words with sounds not in Arabic letters. It is used to represent the sound or sometimes , just like the letter ẓāʼ (). In modern Turkish alphabet J equals to ژ.