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Letter Lab
تتے
tay · /t̪/ (dental t)
Letter 4 of 38
Mimi the mascot, smiling

Starts with this letter

تاجcrown
توتاparrot
تیترpartridge
Trace over
Trace the whole letter

Draw the shared bowl: from the right edge, curve down through the baseline, and rise to the left edge.

Mimi the mascot, thinking
For parents

ت, ث and ٹ all share the same bowl as ب and پ. The dots are everything: ب has one below, پ has three below, ت has two above, ث has three above, ٹ has a small toay (ط-shape) above. Train your child to look at the dots first, not the curve. If they can already tell ت from ث at sight, the script has clicked. Stroke timings are approximate; the discipline is bowl first, then dots above in pairs.

Noticing the difference between ت and ث matters more than writing either one perfectly. The eye that catches the missing dot is the eye that will read fluently. Praise the noticing, not just the drawing.