'palm [of the hand]' or 'tablespoon' (); ʻayin [, the 16th], whose name means 'eye' (); pe [, the 17th], whose name means 'mouth' (); qof [, the 19th], whose name means 'monkey' or "eye of needle" (); tav [, the 22nd], whose name means 'mark' (), and several other Hebrew letters, whose names are ancient Hebrew forms of nouns still used, with a slight change of form or pronunciation, as nouns in modern Hebrew. Syriac zain Zain is a consonant with the sound which is a voiced alveolar fricative. Character encodings See also ڤ - Ve پ - Pe گ - Gāf چ - Che References Phoenician alphabet Arabic letters Hebrew letters