Arabic Letters

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All four forms

اIsolated
Initial
Medial
‍اFinal

The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.

Alif doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.

How to write it

The isolated form, shown as one common way to write it — Arabic stroke order is not fixed as rigidly as it is in some scripts.

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  1. Stroke 1 of 1: part of the letter's body.

Alif doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.

ا

Alif

أَلِف

Isolated form

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