Zayin
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| Phonemic representation | z | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 7 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 7 | |||||||||
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Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Zayin 
, Hebrew 'Zayin ז, Aramaic Zain 
, Syriac Zayn ܙ, and Arabic Zayn ز. It represents the sound [z].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z 
, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.
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