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![[.taa']](images/qtgorda.gif "[.taa']")
This letters sounds vaguely like an English T.
But the position of the tongue is different.
It is a covered letter, and
you should darken the sound by relaxing the back of the mouth.
First draw an egg, then all the letters
which follow the Taa# طاء. If no letters follow, add
a small horizontal tail, with takeoff,
about half a square or one square long.
Then stick on it a #alif ألف, and that's it.
In some computer fonts, the word-final T ط has a stump where the tail should go. That's cheap. And nasty.
Westerners, when writing the T ط for the first time, often take great care to make the alif vertical and put its tip exactly on the small end of the egg, as seen in print. Most Arabs are not so careful. Some of them make the alif lean 45 degrees forward, or make it float over the egg, or stick it onto it, or draw the alif upwards just after drawing the egg, without lifting the pencil. All those styles of writing are correct. But I think you should imitate type, at least for now.
Please note that the letter ص has a small tooth after it, but the ط doesn't. Whenever there is a stick, there is no tooth.
Copyright (c) 2001-2009
Jordi Mas Trullenque.
email: jordimastrullenque at gmail dot com
http://purl.oclc.org/net/arabe/qxt.en.html
Last revised: 2008-04-01
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