تَاء
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe tongue tip and tooth roots طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا
The tip presses against the roots of the upper front teeth — where the tooth enters the gum — and cuts the air off. Ṭāʾ, dāl and tāʾ are all made exactly here.
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: a dot, added after the body is finished.
- 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.
Ta connects on both sides, so it has all four forms.
Same shape, different dots
Joined inside a word these are written identically — only the dots tell them apart. Their isolated forms differ, which is why the alphabet separates them.
Often confused with
In a word
Isolated
مَوْتٌ
mawt
death
Initial
تَبَارَكَ
tabaaraka
blessed is
Medial
كِتَاب
kitaab
book
Final
بَيْتْ
bayt
house
In the Quran
الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ
سورة الملك
تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ
سورة الملك
ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ
سورة البقرة
تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ
سورة المسد
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