Che or cheem is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent pronounced as /link/, and which derives from by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is based on the jim Persian: [[ج]]. It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, Malay (Jawi), Javanese (Pegon), and other Indo-Iranian languages. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added from the twenty-eight inherited from the Arabic alphabet (the others being Persian: ژ, Persian: پ, and Persian: گ in addition to the obsolete Persian: ڤ). In name and shape, it is a variant of jim. Its numerical value is 3000 (see Abjad numerals).
When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ג׳ gimel and a geresh.
The letter can be used to transcribe pronounced as /link/ in Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic dialects, where they have that sound natively as in "Arabic: چلب" pronounced as //tʃalb// (dog) instead of "Arabic: كلب" pronounced as //kalb//. Since the sound is not part of Standard Arabic’s phonology; In most of the rest of Arabic-speaking geographic regions, the combination of is more likely used to transliterate the pronounced as /link/ sound which is often realized as two consonants (pronounced as /link/+pronounced as /link/) as in "Arabic: تشاد" pronounced as //tʃaːd// (Chad) and "Arabic: التشيك" pronounced as //at.tʃiːk// (Czech Republic).
In Egypt, this letter represents pronounced as /link/, which can be a reduction of pronounced as /link/, It is called (جيم بتلات نقط "Gīm with three dots") there. The pronounced as /link/ pronunciation is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri.
In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual or triscripted, this letter represents pronounced as /link/ on roadsigns when transcribing Hebraized place names. It has also been used as pronounced as /link/ in Lebanon for transliteration such as "Arabic: چامبيا" (The Gambia) and "Arabic: چوچل" (Google).[1]