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A horizontal stroke stretching a joined letter.
Also known as: Kashida, Arabic elongation mark, Stretching stroke, Long line between letters
The tatweel is a stretchable connecting stroke used to justify Arabic text — a line is set flush by lengthening letters rather than by widening spaces. It is the only character in wide use whose entire purpose is to occupy horizontal space in a controlled way.
Denotes a connecting stroke inserted between joined Arabic letters to elongate a word.
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Justifies Arabic text by stretching letters rather than by widening word spaces, which is the traditional approach to setting a flush line.
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Carries no phonetic value and does not affect the reading, so it is a purely typographic character.
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Is deprecated for justification in modern digital typography in favour of font-level elongation, since a literal tatweel character is text rather than layout.
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A plain horizontal stroke at the baseline joining two Arabic letters, of variable length.