Along with "vAv" and "alef", these five letters break up the cursive line in a Persian word. They have only two forms and will only connect with the letter preceding them, but not with a letter following them. If they follow each other, they don't connect at all and it looks like print.

dAl and zAl look like boomerangs, re, ze and zhe look like eyelashes. (Although sometimes when reading, the re's look like dAls.)

Remember to roll your R's.

Zhe sounds like the French "j" as in "je suis". Many Iranians transliterate it with a j, but just know when to say it with that French panache. "Javad" is a regular American J, "Bijan" uses the French J (our "zh")

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