سِين
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.
Sin 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
نَاسٌ
naas
people
Initial
سَمِيع
samee'
All-Hearing
Medial
إِنْسَان
insaan
human
Final
شَمْسٌ
shams
sun
In the Quran
قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ
سورة الناس
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ
سورة الفيل
إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
سورة العصر
وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا
سورة الشمس
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