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Punctuation mark

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1. The kashida or tatweel, a character used for lengthening words in cursive scripts, in most cases to justify them.
2. (typography) A carrier for vowel diacritic, used to display the diacritic without a base letter.

   Synonym: ◌

See also

• کشیده (kešide) (Persian), كشيدة (kašīda) (Arabic)
• تطويل (taṭwīl) (Arabic)

Further reading

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