هَاء
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe deepest throat أقصى الحلق
The very bottom of the throat, nearest the chest. The hamza closes it completely and releases; hāʾ lets the air hiss through the same place without closing.
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 1: part of the letter's body.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Haa connects on both sides, so it has all four forms.
Often confused with
In a word
Isolated
إِكْرَاهٌ
ikraah
compulsion
Initial
هَدَى
hadaa
He guided
Medial
شَهْرٍ
shahr
month
Final
اللَّهُ
Allaahu
Allah/God
In the Quran
لَا إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ
سورة البقرة
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
سورة الغاشية
لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ
سورة القدر
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
سورة الإخلاص
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