Tashdeed

Tashdeed means doubling of a letter. In the Arabic language, a special shaddah symbol is used to indicate that a letter needs to be doubled during pronunciation, i.e. to strengthen its reading. It looks like this:

This phenomenon of doubling letters is called tashdeed-strengthening. This symbol is always placed on top of a letter, like this:

The vowels fathah and dammah are always written above shaddah (the tashdeed sign), but kasrah can be written in two ways:

1. under the letter itself

2. directly under the shaddah

Here is what it looks like in both cases:

Let's now have a look at how words with tashdeed are read:

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