Connecting Characters

آ ‘Ā, ā = aa’

Letters with vocabulary examples

Final	Medial	Initial	Freestanding
آ / ـآ	آ / ـآ	آ	الف + ~ = آ
Same as the initial and medial	راه آهَن rāhāhan ‘railway’	آتَش ātaš ‘fire’	Same as the initial