رَاء
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe tongue tip, tapped طرف اللسان مع ظهره
The tip flicks once against the gums, just forward of nūn, with the back of the tongue slightly raised.
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
رIsolated
Initial
Medial
رFinal
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Ra doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.
Same shape, different dots
These letters share one skeleton — only the dots tell them apart.
In a word
Isolated
رَبّ
rabb
Lord
Final
نَصْرُ
nasr
victory
In the Quran
IsolatedAl-Fatiha 1:2
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
سورة الفاتحة
FinalAn-Nasr 110:1
إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ
سورة النصر
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