ZAY

ر ڑ زژ

Urdu Letter	Letter Name	Hindi Equivalent	Teacher
ز	ZAY	ज़	Teacher Icon

Sounds

ZAY sounds like the English “z”. ZAY is one of the four letters that sound like “z”.

The other letters for the “z” sound are: ZĀL (ذ), ZWĀD (ض), and ZOE (ظ). You must learn when to use each one. They are not interchangeable.

Forms

	Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
Basic Forms	چیز	Use Final	Use Detached	ز
In Context	چیز	Use Final	Use Detached	بازار
Write in Context	fill-in			fill-in

Connections

ZAY is a breaker: no letter can be connected after it. Thus ZAY has only two forms: a detached and a final form:

When ZAY appears at the beginning of a word, it will be in its detached form.	زندگی	zindagee
When ZAY appears after another breaker, it will be in its detached form.	بازار	bāzār
When ZAY appears after a non-breaker, it will be in its final form.	چیز	cheez

Note that final ZĀL looks a lot like detached ZAY, but you won’t confuse the two because final ZĀL is always connected to the preceding letter and detached ZAY is never connected to the preceding letter.

Additional Examples of ز

Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
سبزی			روز
تیز			زور
میز			راز
تمیز			زمین