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Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Zayin 10px, Hebrew 'Zayin , Aramaic Zain 10 px, Syriac Zayn (unicode:ܙ), and Arabic Zayn . It represents the sound . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan ''z'' , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. In Biblical Hebrew, ' () means "sword", and the verb ' () means "to arm". In modern Hebrew slang, ' () means "penis" and ' () is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse (similar to "fuck"), although the older meaning survives in ' ("armed struggle") (), ' ("armed forces") (), and ' () ("armed, i.e., reinforced concrete"). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called ''ziqq'', based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".〔Brian E. Colless, (Cuneiform Alphabet )〕 ==Hebrew zayin== In modern Hebrew the frequency of the usage of zayin, out of all the letters, is 0.88%. Hebrew spelling: In modern Hebrew, the combination (zayin followed by a geresh) is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote as in ''vion''. 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「zayin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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