جِيم
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe middle of the tongue وسط اللسان
The middle of the tongue presses up against the roof of the mouth. Jīm closes and releases, shīn spreads the air out sideways, yāʾ glides.
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.
Jim 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.
In a word
Isolated
زَوْجٌ
zawj
spouse
Initial
جَنَّة
jannah
paradise
Medial
سُجُود
sujuud
prostration
Final
حَجّ
hajj
pilgrimage
In the Quran
وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْبُرُوجِ
سورة البروج
وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي
سورة الفجر
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ
سورة الفيل
وَأَذِّنْ فِي النَّاسِ بِالْحَجِّ
سورة الحج
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