فَاء
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe lower lip and upper teeth باطن الشفة السفلى
The inside of the lower lip meets the edges of the upper front teeth and the air hisses between them.
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.
- Stroke 1 of 3: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 2 of 3: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 3 of 3: a dot, added after the body is finished.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Fa connects on both sides, so it has all four forms.
Same shape, different dots
Joined inside a word these are written identically — only the dots tell them apart. Their isolated forms differ, which is why the alphabet separates them.
In a word
Isolated
خَوْفٌ
khawf
fear
Initial
فِي
fee
in
Medial
نَفْسٍ
nafs
soul
Final
كَهْفٌ
kahf
cave
In the Quran
الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَآمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ
سورة قريش
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
سورة الفيل
وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا
سورة الشمس
إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ
سورة الكهف
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