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Azio Eagles Azio Eagles (東風老鷹隊) are a basketball team in the Super Basketball League (SBL) of Taiwan, sponsored by the Azio TV company (Before that, they were called the YMY Lions and was sponsored by the YMY company. Prior to the 2005-2006 season, they were known as the Sina Lions (新浪獅), with corporate sponsor Sina.
Azithromycin Azithromycin is an azalide, a subclass of macrolide antibiotics. Azithromycin (brand names Zithromax® in Italy; Vinzam® / Zitromax® in Spain; Zmax®; Sumamed®; Aztrin®) is one of the world's best-selling antibiotics, and is derived from erythromycin; however, it differs chemically from erythromycin in that a methyl-substituted nitrogen atom is incorporated into the lactone ring, thus making the lactone ring 15-membered.
Aziz Ahmed Khan Aziz Ahmed Khan is Pakistan's high commissioner to India since June 2003. His term as high commissioner to India was to expire in September 2005 but was extended by Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz by a year in August 2005.
Aziz Ansari Aziz Ansari is a stand-up comedian originally from South Carolina, but currently residing in New York City. He has been featured on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, as well as the stand-up compilation Invite Them Up.
Aziz Salihu Aziz Salihu (born May 1, 1954 in Priština, Kosovo, then in Yugoslavia) is a retired heavyweight boxer of Albanian descent, who was born in Kosovo. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and won the bronze medal in the super heavyweight division (> 91kg), after a loss in the semifinals at the hands of Tyrell Biggs of the United States.
Aziz Yıldırım Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is currently the 52nd Chairman of Türkiye Süper Ligi club Fenerbahçe SK. He is currently serving his fourth two-year term since coming to power.
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, also known as The Princess of Jazz, or Die Prinzessin des Jazz or as Jazziza, was born in Baku on December 19, 1969 and is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugam (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan) with classical and Avant-garde influences. She currently resides in Germany with her mother, Eliza Mustafa Zadeh, who is also her manager.
Azizul Haque Azizul Haque (also Azizul Hacque and Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Huq) was a Calcutta(kolkata) police officer of British India who worked with Edward Henry to develop the Henry Classification System of fingerprints. Haque, reportedly, provided the mathematical basis for the system.
Azlan Shah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-Lah (born April 19 1928) is the current Sultan of Perak. He was the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (roughly equivalent to King) of Malaysia from April 26, 1989 to April 25, 1994.
Azle Independent School District Azle Independent School District is a public school district based in Azle, Texas (USA). The district covers northwestern Tarrant County, northeastern Parker County, and a small portion of southern Wise County.
Azmak Cemetery Azmak Cemetery near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey was constructed shortly after the end of the First World War by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and filled with graves brough in from small cemeteries and sites around it. It is on the south side of Azmak Dere, from which it takes its name, a small ravine which runs into the salt lake at Suvla Bay.
Azman bin Abdullah Azman Abdullah is a renowned Singaporean bodybuilder who became a local icon and world-leading sportsman in the 1990s. Winner of the Mr Singapore title on five separate occasions and the continent-elite Mr Asia five times from 1989 to 1993, he also scooped the prestigious Asian Pro-Am Classic in 1992, and was a multiple gold medal winner in the Southeast Asian Games in 1989, 1991 and in 1993, when the biennial games were held in Singapore.
Azmyl Yunor Azmyl Yunor (born 1977 in Kuala Lumpur) is an independent singer-songwriter from Malaysia. His works have ranged from acoustic singer-songwriter styles to experimental guitar improvisations to punk and indie-noise rock, solo and with various bands he has founded and recorded with.
Aznar I Galíndez Aznar I or Asnar (know as Galíndez or Sánchez; Basque: Aznar Antso, French: Aznard Sanche, Gascon: Aznar Sans, Spanish: Aznar Sancho; died 839) was the Count of Aragón and Conflent from 809 and Cerdagne and Urgel and Duke of GasconyBearing the title of "count of Vasconia Citerior." from 820.
Azole An azole is a class of five-membered nitrogen heterocyclic ring compounds containing at least one other noncarbon atom, nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen. The parent compounds are aromatic and have two double bonds; there are successively reduced analogs (azolines and azolidines) with less.
Azolla Azolla (water fern, mosquito fern, duckweed fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns, the only genus in the family Azollaceae. They are extremely reduced in form and specialized, looking nothing like conventional ferns but more resembling duckweed or some mosses.
Azomonas Azomonas are typically motile, oval to spherical, and secrete large quantities of capsular slime. They are distinguished from Azotobacter by their inability to form cysts, but like Azotobacter they can biologically fix nitrogen under aerobic conditions.
Azone Azones, in mythology, is a term anciently applied to such of the gods and goddesses as were not the private divinities of any particular country or people, but were acknowledged as deities in every country, and worshipped in every nation. The word is derived from the Greek for "without" and "country".
Azorella Azorella is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to South America, New Zealand and the islands of the Southern Oceans. They are low-growing dwarf mat-forming plants growing in high exposure on mountains and subantarctic coasts; with great age they may form rounded mounds of foliage up to 1 m high but are usually less than 10 cm high.
Azores dogfish The Azores dogfish, Scymnodalatias garricki, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, known only from the holotype taken at a depth of 300 m from one of the seamounts of the North Atlantic Ridge located north of the Azores. The Azores dogfish is ovoviviparous.
Azores high The Azores high - semipermanent subtropical center of high atmospheric pressure found near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Horse latitudes. The same high when shifted to the west is called Bermuda high
Azores Liberation Front The Azores Liberation Front, more commonly known as FLA (Portuguese: Frente de Libertação dos Açores) was a right-wing paramilitary organisation with independentist goals that appeared in the Azores, right after the Carnation Revolution.
Azotemia Azotemia is a medical condition characterized by abnormal levels of urea, creatinine, various body waste compounds, and other nitrogen-rich compounds in the blood as a result of insufficient filtering of the blood by the kidneys.
Azoth Azoth was considered to be a 'universal medicine' or 'universal solvent' sought in alchemy. Its symbol was the Caduceus and so the term, which being originally a term for an occult formula sought by alchemists much like the philosopher's stone, became a poetic word for the element Mercury.
Azotobacter Azotobacter are usually motile, oval, or spherical bacteria, form thick-walled cysts, and may produce large quantities of capsular slime. Beyond Azotobacter’s use as a model it has biotechnological applications.
Azotobacteraceae The family Azotobacteraceae contains aerobic diazotrophs with two Genera, Azomonas and Azotobacter, distinguished by the ability to form cysts. The family is also characterized by variable cell shape, the classic shape being ovoid while many are pleomorphic.
Azougui Azougui was a town in north western Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau, north west of Atar. In the eleventh century it was a base for the Muslim Berber Almoravid dynasty, from which they conquered the Ghana Empire and Morocco.
Azouz Begag Azouz Begag (born 5th February 1957 in Lyon, RhĂ´ne, France) is a French writer and researcher in economy at the CNRS. He is the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of current French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
Azov campaigns Azov campaigns of 1695-1696 (Азовские походы in Russian), two Russian military campaigns during the Russo-Turkish War of 1686-1700, led by Peter the Great and aimed at capturing the Turkish fortress of Azov (garrison - 7,000 men), which had been blocking Russia's access to the Azov Sea and the Black Sea.
Azov Cossack Host Azov Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1828 of Trans-Danubian Sich Cossacks (Задунайская Сечь) returned under the Russian patronage during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 under the command of kosh ataman Osip Hladkiy (Осип Михайлов Гладкий). When the war ended, they were given land between Berdyansk and Mariupol.
Azra Akın Azra Akın is a Turkish model, who was crowned Miss World 2002 at the annual pageant held on December 7 2002 at Alexandra Palace in London, England, representing Turkey. She was born on December 12, 1981 in the Dutch town of Almelo, and was raised in the Netherlands by Turkish parents.
Azra Erhat Azra Erhat was a Turkish authoress, archaeologist, academician and translator (notably of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey which are admitted to be the references in the Turkish language for these works). Together with Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (alias "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus") and Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, she is also in the origin of the literary and touristic term, "the Blue Cruise" ("Mavi Yolculuk" in Turkish)
Azra Meadows Dr Azra Meadows is an Honorary Lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at The University of Glasgow and is married to Professor Peter S. Meadows, along with whom she has carried out extensive work of an environmental, cultural and educational nature in both Scotland and Pakistan.
Azrael Azrael (in standard Arabic transliteration it is Ezra'il or Ezra'eil عزرائیل) is typically known as one of the names of the angel of death, and is an English form of the Arabic name Ezra'il or Ezra'eil, the name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam, although the Qur'an never uses this name, usually using instead Malak al-Maut (which is a direct translation of angel of death). It is also spelled Izrail, Izrael, Azrail, and Azrael.
Azrael (comics) Azrael (Jean-Paul Valley) is a fictional character from DC Comics. He appeared originally in the 1992-1993 four-issue limited series Batman: Sword of Azrael, created by Dennis O'Neil and Joe Quesada, and later as a supporting character in various Batman-related titles, before gaining his own self-titled series (also by O'Neil).
Azriael (wrestler) Azrieal a professional wrestler (born September 23, 1981) who currently works in Jersey All-Pro Wrestling, Full Impact Pro and Pro Wrestling Unplugged. He was also a member of Special K (under the name Angeldust) in Ring of Honor.
Azriel (Jewish mystic) Azriel ben Menahem (Heb. עזריאל בן מנחם) was one of the most important Jewish mystics in the Spanish town of Gerona (north of Barcelona) during the thirteenth century when it was an important center of the Kabbalah.
Azriel Hildesheimer Israel Azriel Hildesheimer (May 20, 1820 – July 12, 1899) was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Azriel Rosenfeld Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 - February 22, 2004) was Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology.
Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, a Yeshiva University professional school, was established in 1945 and named in 1983 for Montréal architect and philanthropist David J. Azrieli.
Aztag Daily Newspaper The Aztag Daily Newspaper (Armenian: Ô±Ő¦Ő¤ŐˇŐŻ Ő•Ö€ŐˇŐ©ŐĄÖ€Ő©) is the official newspaper of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party (Dashnaktsutiun) in Lebanon. The present Editor in Chief is Shahan Kandaharian.
Aztalan State Park Aztalan State Park is a Wisconsin state park located just south of the town of Aztalan, Wisconsin at latitude N 43° 4' and longitude W 88° 52', and established in 1952. It was also designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Aztec The Aztecs is a collective term used for all of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples under the control of the Mexica, founders of Tenochtitlan, and their two principal allies, who built an extensive empire in the late Postclassic period in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Central Mexico.
Aztec (book) Aztec is a historical fiction novel by Gary Jennings. The book is written as a series of letters from the Bishop of the See of New Spain to King Carlos of Spain containing a transcribed biography of Mixtli (Nahuatl for "Dark Cloud"), an elderly Aztec man, by Spanish Catholic monks during the 16th century.
Aztec philosophy Aztec philosophy was the school of philosophy developed by the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs had a well developed school of philosophy, perhaps the most developed in the Americas and in many ways comparable to Greek philosophy, even amassing more texts than the ancient GreeksMann, Charles C.
Aztec religion The Religion of the Aztecs was a typical Mesoamerican religion combining elements of polytheism, shamanism and animism within a framework of Astronomy and calendrics. Like other Mesoamerican religion it had elements of human sacrifice in connection with a large number of religious festivals which were held according to patterns of the Aztec calendar.
Aztec Ruins National Monument Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River. Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, with more ancestral Pueblo structures, lies a short distance to the south, just west of Bloomfield and near the San Juan River.
Aztec Triple Alliance The Aztec Triple Alliance, also known as The Aztec Empire, was an alliance of three Aztec city-states: Tenochtitlan; Texcoco; and Tlacopan. These city-states ruled the area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until they were defeated the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies under Hernán Cortés in 1521.
Aztec warfare Aztec warfare concerns the aspects associated with the militaristic conventions, forces, weaponry and strategic expansions conducted by the Late Postclassic Aztec civilization of Mesoamerica, including particularly the military history of the Aztec Triple Alliance involving the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tlacopan and other allied polities of the central Mexican region.
Aztec West Aztec West is a business park in South Gloucestershire, situated at the northern fringes of Greater Bristol, near Bradley Stoke and Patchway. It is close to the M4 and M5 motorways and the Almondsbury Interchange.
Azteca (band) Azteca was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band formed at the end of 1971 by Neal Schon, later of Journey fame, along with Larry Graham (bass) and Gregg Errico (drums), both from Sly and the Family Stone and Peter Sears (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship) keyboard. The band, which exhibited heavy Latin influences, would eventually morph into Graham Central Station after a fashion.
Azteca (horse) The Azteca is a modern horse breed combining Iberian horse blood and American Quarter Horse or Criollo (horse) blood (international Registry) or Iberian horse blood and American Quarter Horse blood (American Registry).
AzTV AzTV, or Azeri TeleVision, is the national broadcaster for Azerbaijan. AzTV became an active member of the European Broadcasting Union in January 2007 and they're expected to make a debut in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
Azuaga, Badajoz Azuaga is a municipality in Badajoz province in southern Extremadura, bordering the Andaluz provinces of Sevilla and CĂłrdoba in Spain. 140 km from the city of Badajoz, 125 km from the city of CĂłrdoba, and 140 km from the city of Sevilla.
Azucareros del Este The Azucareros del Este are a baseball team in the Dominican Winter League established in 1983. Based in the eastern city of La Romana, the Azucareros have reached three championship series in their history, winning the title in 1995.
Azucena Villaflor Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924, Avellaneda –- December 1977?) was an Argentine social activist, one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights association, who look for desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance during the Dirty War).
Azuchi-Momoyama period The came at the end of the Warring States Period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place. It spans the years from approximately 1568 to 1600, during which time Oda Nobunaga and his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, imposed order upon the chaos that had pervaded since the collapse of the Ashikaga Shogunate.
Azuki bean The azuki bean (also spelled adzuki) is an annual vine widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalaya for its small (approximately 5 mm) bean. The cultivars most familiar in northeast Asia have a uniform red color, but white, black, gray and variously mottled varieties are also known.
Azuki Rousai Azuki Rōsai (japanese: 小豆 蠟斎, hiragana: あずき ろうさい, rōmaji: Azuki Rousai) a character featured in the Japanese anime Basilisk Kouga Ninpou Chou (known in English as the Kouga Ninja Scrolls). Rousai was one of ten Ninja that were assigned by his leader Ogen to represent their clan of Iga Tsubagakure against the chosen ten of the rival Kouga Manjidani clan.
Azukiarai Azukiarai(小豆洗い, "azuki bean washing") is a ghostly phenomenon in Japanese folklore, in which a mysterious noise that sounds like azuki beans being washed is heard, usually near a river or other body of water. Sometimes the creature or spirit responsible amuses itself by singing "azuki togō ka, hito totte kuō ka?
Azul systems Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service for transaction-intensive applications, such as those built on the Java (Java language) platform. The company is focused on providing a scalable infrastructure that supports enterprise environments through their Azul Compute Appliances.
Azul Tequila is a Mexican telenovela. The 80-episode serial was produced for TV Azteca by the celebrity couple Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita in conjunction with Humberto's brother Gerardo under their production company ZUBA Producciones.
Azul Violeta Mexican band Azul Violeta was formed in 1988 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, by Hugo RodrĂ­guez and CĂ©sar LĂłpez. Mixing funk and soul, these Latin rockers were able to convince EMI, which signed them up in 1994, releasing America, produced in England by Richard Blair.
Azulejo The azulejos are a typical form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework. They have become a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, manifesting without interruption during five centuries the consecutive trends in art.
Azulongmon Azulongmon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Mega Beast Digimon. A member of the Harmonious ones (or Digimon Sovereigns in the Tamers canon), he is the Guardian of the Digital World's Eastern Hemisphere.
Azuma Kagami The Azuma Kagami (吾妻鏡, also 東鑑) is a chronicle of the Kamakura Shogunate from 1180 to 1266. It was compiled after 1266 under the directive of the Hōjō regent and is a record in diary form of events occurring in Japan between 1180 and 1266.
Azuma, Gunma (Sawa) Azuma (東村; -mura) was a village located in Sawa District, Gunma, Japan. On January 1, 2005 the village merged with the old city of Isesaki in order to form the new city of Isesaki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Azuma, Ibaraki Azuma (東町; -machi) was a town located in Inashiki District, Ibaraki, Japan. On March 22, 2005 the town merged with two other towns and a village from the district forming the city of Inashiki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Azumaya algebra In mathematics, an Azumaya algebra is a generalization of central simple algebras to R-algebras where R need not be a field. Such a notion was introduced in a 1951 paper of Goro Azumaya (born 1920), for the case where R is a commutative local ring.
Azumi Azumi (あずみ) is a manga (Japanese comic) series created by Yu Koyama. It concerns the title character, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed.
Azure In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az.
Azure (journal) Azure, subtitled Ideas for the Jewish Nation, is the journal of the Shalem Center, an academic institute in Jerusalem. The magazine is published quarterly in English and in Hebrew; the Hebrew edition is Israel's leading journal of public thought.
Azure Bonds Azure Bonds is a fantasy novel written by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb and was originally published in 1988. It is the opening novel of the Finders Stone Trilogy which is set within the world of the Forgotten Realms.
Azure Jay The Azure Jay, (Cyanocorax caeruleus) (Brazilian Portuguese: Gralha-azul) is a passeriform bird of the crow family Corvidae, with blue feathers on the head, on the front part of the neck and on the upper chest. Males and females have the same plumage and appearance although the females in are typically smaller.
Azure moon azure moon is Every Little Thing's 29th single released under label Avex Trax. It was a ballad single that also included a special acoustic version of their 2003 single "SORAAI" for ELT's concert "Every Little Thing X'mas Acoustic Live at Uragami Tenshudou ～Ai no Uta～", which took place at Nagasaki on December 11, 2005.
Azure-winged Magpie The Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana) is a bird in the crow family. It is 31-35 cm long and similar in overall shape to the European Magpie (Pica pica) but is more slender with proportionately smaller legs and bill.
Azuris aurum Azuris Aurum (also known simply as Azuris) is an instrumental funk-fusion band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in the fall of 2002 by guitarist Mikael Tobias as an outlet to experiment with existing compositional and improvisational song structures.
Azurite Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. It is also known as Chessylite after the Chessy-les-MinesFrench Wikipedia: Chessy-les-Mines near Lyon, France, where striking specimens have been found.
Azusa Street Revival The Azusa Street Revival, also known as Miracle At Azusa Street and And The Fire Still Falls, (1906–1909) took place in Los Angeles, California and was led by William J. Seymour (1870–1922), an African American preacher.
Azusa Will Help! is an original video animation anime by and produced by TMS Entertainment. It was aired across Japan by the anime television network, Animax, and was earlier, in 2003, the second recipient of the annual Animax TaishĹŤ, an annual anime scriptwriting competition offered by Animax to award the best original anime scripts of the year.
Azymite Azymites (from Gk. a privative, and zyme, leaven) is a term of reproach used by the Orthodox churches since the eleventh century against the Latin Churches, who, together with the Armenians and the Maronites, celebrate the Eucharist with unleavened bread.
Azymuth Azymuth is a three-piece electric funk jazz group from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Formed in the late 1960s, the members are Jose Roberto Bertrami (keyboards), Alex Malheiros (bass, guitars), and Ivan Conti (drums, percussion).
Azyxxi Azyxxi (pronounced ah-ZIK-see) is health care software program designed to retrieve and display patient information from many sources, including scanned documents, electrocardiograms, X-rays, MRI scans and other medical imaging procedures, lab results, dictated reports of surgery, as well as patient demographics and contact information. It was developed by doctors and researchers at the Washington Hospital Center emergency department in 1996, and has since been adopted at Georgetown University Hospital and five other hospitals in the MedStar Health group, a nonprofit network in the Baltimore-Washington, D.
Azzano di Spoleto Azzano is a hamlet in central Umbria, a frazione of Spoleto in the upper floodplain of the Clitunno river at 42°49N49N 12°29E, at 229 m above sea-level; its population is about 100. Traces of the ancient Roman Via Flaminia can still be made out near the village, the chief monuments of which are the three medieval churches of S.
AZ (rapper) Anthony Cruz (born March 9, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York), better known as AZ, is a Grammy nominated African American/Dominican-American East-Coast rapper currently residing in Englewood, New Jersey. Originally known as AZ The Visualiza, AZ has achieved a strong fanbase in spite of little mainstream success.
Ṣ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a dot below the letter. It is used in the transcription of Indic languages to represent a voiceless retroflex fricative (IPA: ), and in the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic s".
Ṭe is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, derived from (ت) by replacing the dots with a small (ط). It is not used in Arabic itself, but is used to represent a voiceless retroflex plosive (IPA: ) in Urdu.
áş’ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of a dot below the letter. It is used in the transcription of transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages to represent an "emphatic z".
Ẓāʼ () is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents a pharyngealized voiced dental fricative or voiced alveolar fricative ( or ).
ᶑ is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in phonetic transcription to represent a voiced retroflex implosive. It is formed from d with the addition of a hooks to mark it as implosive, and a tail to mark it as retroflex.
Ḫāʼ (, transliterated as either (DIN-31635) or (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiceless velar fricative ().
Ḏāl () is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiced dental fricative ( voiced dental fricative).
Ḇ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from B with the addition of an underline diacritic. It is used, for example, in the transliteration of Biblical Hebrew into the Roman alphabet to show the fricative value of the letter beth (ב).

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