U+0698 "ژ" Arabic Letter Jeh Unicode Character

U+0698 "ژ" Arabic Letter Jeh is a distinct letter used in the Perso-Arabic script, primarily representing a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in the English word "measure" or the French "j" in "journal." This character extends the basic Arabic alphabet and is notably employed in Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Urdu orthographies, where it is used to write loanwords and native vocabulary. It is typically positioned between the letters "zain" and "sin" when ordering alphabets in these languages, and its visual form consists of a hooked vertical stroke with a single diacritical dot placed above it. Unlike the standard Arabic letter "ra," which lacks dots, the addition of this dot distinguishes the "jeh" sound, making it an essential component for accurate representation of certain phonetic contexts in these writing systems.