» for the town in Nepal see Resh, Nepal Resh's the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value's one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or /ɾ/ but also /ʁ/ or /ʀ/ in Hebrew. In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents)'s quite similar to the letter dalet (and its equivalents). In the Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar that now they're only distinguished by a dot: res… (More on Resh)