The nasal cavity

Al-Khayshūm — the nose · Point 17 of 17

الخيشوم

The nose, and no part of the mouth at all — the ghunnah, a hum you can stop by pinching your nostrils. It has no letter of its own: it lives inside mīm and nūn.

Letters made here

Common mistake

Skipping it. When mīm or nūn carries a shadda the hum is held roughly twice as long.