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tāw

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Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw Phoenician taw.svg, Hebrew Tav ת, Aramaic Taw Taw.svg, Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic Tāʼ ت (in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). Its original sound value is /t/.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т.

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Symmetric, Open shape, Monochrome, Contains straight lines, Has crossing lines.

Category: Alphabets.

tāw is part of the Phoenician alphabet group.

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