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Ayin (עין) means "eye" in Hebrew. It is also the 16th Letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ע).

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Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the various Semitic alphabets, including:

  • Phoenician ʿayin = ?
  • Hebrew ʿayin = ע
  • Aramaic ʿē = ?
  • Ugaritic 'Ain = ?
  • Syriac ʿē = ܥ
  • Arabic ʿayn = ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). ﻉ comes twenty‐first in the Persian alphabet and eighteenth in the hijaʾi order of Arabic.


The ʿayin glyph in these various languages represents or used to represent a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) or a similarly articulated consonant, of which there is not even an approximate substitute sound in English. There are many possible transliterations. It sounds to English speakers like a gulp or a swallow. In Modern Hebrew, most Israelis treat it as a silent letter. In Iran it is also silent or pronounced like a glottal stop.

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