Resh is the twentieth letter of many
Semitic alphabets, including
Phoenician,
Aramaic,
Hebrew and
Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is one of a number of
rhotic consonants: usually or but also or in Hebrew.In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents) is quite similar to the letter
dalet (and its equivalents). In the
Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar that now they are only distinguished by a dot: resh has a dot above the letter, and the otherwise identical dalet has a dot below the letter. In the Arabic alphabet, has a longer tail than . In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded single stroke while dalet is a right-angle of two strokes. The similarity led to the variant spellings of the name
Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadrezzar.
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