ثَاء
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe tongue tip between the teeth طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا
The tip pushes out between the teeth, touching the edges of the upper front teeth, and the air passes over it. Ẓāʾ, dhāl and thāʾ are made 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 4: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 2 of 4: a dot, added after the body is finished.
- Stroke 3 of 4: a dot, added after the body is finished.
- Stroke 4 of 4: a dot, added after the body is finished.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Tha 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
حَرْثٌ
harth
tillage
Initial
ثُمَّ
thumma
then
Medial
مَثَل
mathal
example
Final
حَدِيثٌ
hadith
narration
In the Quran
وَيُهْلِكَ الْحَرْثَ وَالنَّسْلَ
سورة البقرة
كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
سورة التكاثر
إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَسْتَحْيِي أَنْ يَضْرِبَ مَثَلًا
سورة البقرة
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
سورة الغاشية
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