ـ


ـ U+0640, ـ
ARABIC TATWEEL
← ؿ
[U+063F] 		Arabic ف →
[U+0641]

Translingual

Punctuation mark

ـ

  1. The kashida or tatweel, a character used for lengthening words in cursive scripts, in most cases to justify them.
  2. (typography) A carrier for vowel diacritic, used to display the diacritic without a base letter.
    Synonym: ◌

See also

Further reading

Kashida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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