SAY

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Urdu Letter	Letter Name	Sound	Hindi Equivalent	Teacher
	SAY	English “S”	स	Teacher Icon

Sounds

SAY sounds like the English “s”. There are two other letters that sound like “s” in Urdu: SEEN (س) and SWĀD (ص). They are not interchangeable: you must learn which words use which letter. SEEN is the most common, SWĀD is next most common, and SAY is quite rare.

Connections

SAY can connect from both sides. Thus it has four forms: detached, initial, medial, and final.

	Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
Basic Forms	ث	مثا	اثر	ث
In-Context	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in
Write-In Context	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in

SAY is a member of the “point system” family. The letters in this family consist only of a point or cusp in their initial and medial forms. Dots or symbols above or below the cusp differentiate the members of this family.

Other	Three Dots	Two Dots	One Dot
Retroflex TAY	SAY	TAY	NOON
fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	Above
	fill-in	fill-in	fill-in	Below
	PAY	YAY (Dots only in initial & medial forms)	BAY

Variations

For aesthetic reasons, the initial form of these letters can assume one of three slightly different shapes depending on which letter follows. The use of these three different shapes will come naturally with experience. Here are 3 examples of the three initial shapes of ث:

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SAY

In some cases the cusp for medial ث gets smoothed out.

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Example: example

Additional Examples of ث

Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
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