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ففا
fay · /f/
Letter 26 of 38
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Starts with this letter

فہمunderstanding
فجرdawn / Fajr prayer
فیصلFaisal (proper name) / decisive
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Trace the whole letter

Draw the rounded body: a small circle to the right, a tail extending left along the baseline.

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For parents

ف and ق share the same body shape; ف has one dot above, ق has two. This pair confuses children early. Have them practise writing فاتح (faatih, conqueror) and قاتل (qaatil, killer) side by side; same body, different dot count, completely different meanings. The dot is not decoration in this script. The dot is the word. Stroke timings approximate.

Writing فاتح and قاتل without confusing them is real script literacy. Name the discrimination, not just the writing.