وَاو
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsBoth lips الشفتان
The lips close for bāʾ and mīm and release; for wāw they round without closing.
Wāw is made at the lips as a consonant, but when it lengthens a damma it becomes the open cavity itself.
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
وIsolated
Initial
Medial
وFinal
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Waw doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.
In a word
Isolated
وَ
wa
and
Final
هُوَ
huwa
he/it is
In the Quran
IsolatedAl-Asr 103:1
وَالْعَصْرِ
سورة العصر
FinalAl-Ikhlas 112:1
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
سورة الإخلاص
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