of the usage of dalet, out of all the letters, is 2.59%. Syriac daled/dolath In the Syriac alphabet, the fourth letter is — in western pronunciation, and in eastern pronunciation (). It is one of six letters that represents two associated sounds (the others are bet, gimel, kaph, pe and taw). When daled/dolath has a hard pronunciation (qûššāyâ) it is a . When it has a soft pronunciation (rûkkāḵâ) it is traditionally pronounced as a . The letter is very common in Syriac as it is often attached to the beginning of words as the relative pronoun. Daled/dolath is always written with a point below it to distinguish it from the letter resh (), which is identical apart from having a point above. As a numeral, dalad/dolath stands for the number four. With various systems of dots and dashes, it can also stand for 4,000 and 40,000. Arabic dāl The letter is named dāl دَالْ, and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: The letter represents a sound. Character encodings See also History of the alphabet#Semitic alphabet Proto-Sinaitic script References External links Hebrew letters Phoenician alphabet Arabic letters