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Alif Dagger Lām Tencent Weibo Written The  Common

Arabic ِهَذِه
English This (feminine)
Sentence
يجري جمع هذه المعلومات بالنيابة عن Tencent Weibo.
This
https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-arabic/This
 information is being collected on behalf of Tencent Weibo.
Image
https://youtu.be/KOPbVFQwpD8
Notes Despite being written "هذه", it should be pronounced "هاذه". For more information as to why that is, see the Wikipedia article "Dagger Alif"

The dagger alif or superscript alif (
Arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language
: ألف خنجرية alif khanjarīyah) is written as a short vertical stroke on top of an 
Arabic letter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
. It indicates a long /aː/ sound where 
alif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
 is normally not written, e.g. هَٰذَا hādhā or رَحْمَٰن raḥmān. The dagger alif occurs in only a few modern words, but these include some common ones; it is seldom written, however, even in fully vocalised texts, except in the 
Qur'an
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qur%27an
.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_alif#cite_note-Alhawary-1
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_alif#cite_note-Ryding-2
 As 
Wright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wright_(orientalist)
 notes "[alif] was at first more rarely marked than the other long vowels, and hence it happens that, at a later period, after the invention of the vowel-points, it was indicated in some very common words merely by a fatḥa [i.e. the dagger alif.]"
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_alif#cite_note-Wright-3
 Most keyboards do not have dagger alif. The word 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EF%B7%B2
 (Allāh) is usually produced automatically by entering "alif lām lām hāʾ". The word consists of alif + 
ligature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
 of doubled lām with a 
shadda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadda
 and a dagger alif above lām.

Plurals ِهَٰذِه

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