| Che | |
| Letter: | Persian: چ |
| Script: | Arabic script |
| Type: | Abjad |
| Language: | Persian language |
| Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ |
| Alphanumber: | 7 |
| Equivalents: | ch, č |
| Direction: | Right-to-left |
| Fam1: | |
| Fam5: | ح |
| Fam6: | ج |
Che or cheem is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent pronounced as /link/. The letter derives from by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, Malay (Jawi), Javanese (Pegon), and other Indo-Iranian languages. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added to the Arabic script (the others being Persian: ژ, Persian: پ, and Persian: گ in addition to the obsolete Persian: ڤ. Its numerical value is 3000 (see Abjad numerals).
The letter can be used to transcribe pronounced as /link/ in Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic dialects, where they have that sound natively as in "Arabic: چلب" pronounced as //tʃalb// (dog) instead of "Arabic: كلب" pronounced as //kalb//. Since the sound is not part of Standard Arabic’s phonology; In most of the rest of Arabic-speaking geographic regions, the combination of is more likely used to transliterate the pronounced as /link/ sound which is often realized as two consonants (pronounced as /link/+pronounced as /link/) as in "Arabic: تشاد" pronounced as //tʃaːd// (Chad) and "Arabic: التشيك" pronounced as //at.tʃiːk// (Czech Republic).
In Egypt, this letter represents pronounced as /link/, which can be a reduction of pronounced as /link/, It is called (جيم بتلات نقط "Gīm with three dots") there. The pronounced as /link/ pronunciation is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri.
In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual or triscripted, this letter represents pronounced as /link/ on roadsigns when transcribing Hebrew place names. It has also been used as pronounced as /link/ in Lebanon for transliteration such as "Arabic: چامبيا" (The Gambia) and "Arabic: چوچل" (Google).[1]
