صَاد
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe tongue tip and lower teeth الأصوات الصفيرية
The tip sits just behind the lower front teeth and the air is forced through a narrow channel, producing a whistle. Ṣād, sīn and zāy share this whistle.
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 2: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 2 of 2: part of the letter's body.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Sad 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
إِخْلَاصٌ
ikhlaas
sincerity
Initial
صِرَاط
siraat
path
Medial
نَصْر
nasr
victory
Final
نَقْصٌ
naqs
deficiency
In the Quran
كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِصَاصُ فِي الْقَتْلَى
سورة البقرة
صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
سورة الفاتحة
إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ
سورة النصر
وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ الْخَوْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ الْأَمْوَالِ
سورة البقرة
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