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the siyn سين

letra siyn This letter is an S.

way NOT to write the "seen"

By some strange law of nature, the first time a Westerner tries to draw this letter "seen" س, she invariably draws three half-circles of the same size.

This looks like the handwriting of a four-year-old.

The problem is, the first time you look at a "seen" س you see three archs, so you try to draw three archs. There is an easy solution to that: stop seeing three archs. A seen is actually made up of six parts:
  1. A tooth,
  2. a horizontal short line,
  3. another tooth,
  4. another horizontal short line,
  5. a noon's head, and
  6. a noon's tail.
Strokes 5 and form a noon, and, as we said earlier, this noon must contain a full grid square inside it and a little more. The three teeth at the beginning must take, all together, about as much space as the tail, like these three red lines show:



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