Hamza

‍‌ء

Urdu Letter	Letter Name	Sound	Hindi Equivalent	Teacher
‍‌ء	Hamza	Vowel Separator	N/A	Teacher Icon

	Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
Basic Forms	No Final Form	ئ	ئ	ء
In Context	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in
Write in Context	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in

Hamza functions as a vowel separator. It has no sounds of its own.

Connections

Occasionally two vowels occur together in a word without an intervening consonant. In such cases Hamza is inserted to carry the second vowel. The first vowel can be long or short. For example:

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ल ए	fill-in	<-	fill-in
गऊ	fill-in	<-	fill-in
नाई	fill-in	<-	fill-in
जा ओ	fill-in	<-	fill-in

On a detached و (VĀO) Hamza is put directly on top of the و without any cusp.

For example

खाओ = fill-in

गाओ = fill-in

आओ = fill-in

But a final form (connected) VĀO needs an additional cusp for Hamza:
गऊ = fill-in