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Resh is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Rēsh 12px, Hebrew Rēsh , Aramaic Rēsh 10px, Syriac Rēsh (unicode:ܪ), and Arabic . 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''. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Rho (Ρ), Etruscan 9px, Latin R, and Cyrillic Р. ==Origins== The word ''resh'' is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raʾ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, ''rēš-'', was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for "head" (SAG 𒊕, 30px) in Akkadian. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「resh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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