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shadda
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Also known as ARABIC SHADDA, tashdīd, shaddah, tashdid

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It is catalogued under the topic Arabic diacritics.

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
Arabic diacritic
Image
00-Taschdid.svg
Has use
gemination
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Unicode code point
0651
native label
تَشْدِيد
IPA transcription
ː
Unicode character
ّ
Unicode block
Arabic
Unicode character name
ARABIC SHADDA
HTML entity
ّ
Commons category
Shadda
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Form
  • Combination with other diacritics
  • Significance of marking consonant length
  • See also
  • References

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Shaddah ( , , also called by the verbal noun from the same root, tashdid ) is one of the diacritics used with the Arabic alphabet, indicating a geminated consonant. It is functionally equivalent to writing a consonant twice in the orthographies of languages such as for example Latin, Italian, Swedish, and Ancient Greek, and is rendered as such in Latin script in most schemes of Arabic transliteration, e.g. = .

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