Judaeo-Spanish, as in "masa" (matzo) or "sadik" (tzadik). Significance In gematria, represents the number 90. Its final form represents 900, but this is rarely used, taw, taw, and qof (400+400+100) being used instead. As an abbreviation, it stands for ṣafon, north. is also one of the seven letters that receive a special crown (called tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See shin, ‘ayin, , nun, zayin, and gimmel. Arabic ṣād The letter is named and in Modern Standard Arabic is pronounced . It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word: Chapter Ṣād of the Quran is named for this letter, which begins the chapter. The phoneme is not native to Persian, Ottoman Turkish, or Urdu, and its pronunciation in Arabic loanwords in those languages is not distinguishable from or , all of which are pronounced . Character encodings See also Ṣ Z → Usage Tse (Cyrillic) Notes External links Phoenician alphabet Arabic letters Hebrew letters Letters with final form