غَيْن
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe nearest throat أدنى الحلق
The top of the throat, where it meets the mouth. Khāʾ is the scraping sound with no voice; ghayn is the same scrape with the voice switched on.
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.
Ghain connects on both sides, so it has all four forms.
Same shape, different dots
These letters share one skeleton — only the dots tell them apart.
Often confused with
In a word
Isolated
بَلَاغٌ
balaagh
conveyance
Initial
غَيْب
ghayb
unseen
Medial
اسْتَغْفِرْ
istaghfir
seek forgiveness
Final
بَالِغٌ
baaligh
reaching
In the Quran
فَإِنَّمَا عَلَى رَسُولِنَا الْبَلَاغُ الْمُبِينُ
سورة المائدة
صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
سورة الفاتحة
فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَاسْتَغْفِرْهُ
سورة النصر
إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ
سورة الطلاق
Browse every letter in the Arabic letters tool.