Yāʼ

Yāʼ is a special letter in the Arabic alphabet that makes a sound like the "y" in "yes" or the "ee" in "meet". It looks like a little snail without a shell with two dots above it. When we learn to read and write in Arabic, we have to learn what the yāʼ looks like, how to say its sound, and how to use it in words and sentences. It's like a special code that we need to understand to be able to read and write in Arabic. Some words in Arabic have yāʼ in them, like "يَد" which means "hand" or "لَيْل" which means "night". We can also use different marks above or below the yāʼ to change how it's pronounced, kind of like adding decorations to a cake to make it taste different. Overall, the yāʼ is a very important letter in the Arabic alphabet that helps us create different sounds and meanings in words.