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Vinony's link graph records 216 inbound references to shadda, and connects out to Arabic, Latin and Italian.
It is catalogued under the topic Arabic diacritics.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Arabic diacritic
- Part of
- Arabic alphabet
- 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 sectionsContents
- 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. = .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shadda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.