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Farsi alphabet
Below is list of Farsi characters and it's english equivalance.
Many of the characters in farsi have two symbol, first one for when it used at the beginning and middle of word and second one for when it used at the end of word.
(There is a third symbol just for middle of the word which is not illustrated here).

Farsi characters are written from right to left and numbers from left to right.
There are many font styles in farsi which is not introduced here.
Note: Some of the vowels like, A (as in Ashley) & E (as in Eric) & O (as in Ocean) are not written when used in middle of word, but pronounced. (These characters are used only during the process of learning the language).


Characters (right to left)
T
P
B
A & O & E
& Â

Â
Kh
H
Ch
J
S
Pronounced like
"s" in measure.

Z
R
Z
D
Take the sound of
it's following vowel

Z
S
Sh
S
Gh
F
Z
T
Gh
N
M
L
G
K
  Y & Î
H
V & O & Û
Numbers (left to right)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9








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