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Letter

 * 1) superscript alif, dagger alif, indicates a long  where  is normally not written.

Usage notes

 * ʔalif ḵanjariyya is a rare diacritic, is missing on standard keyboards and is sometimes replaced with a fatḥa in a vocalised Arabic text or omitted altogether, except in the Qur'an.
 * ʔalif ḵanjariyya can be written with or without a fatḥa, e.g. with a fatḥa in the Middle East or without a fatḥa  in South Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh)
 * The word is usually produced automatically by entering "alif + lām + lām + hāʾ" -  (read from right to left). The word consists of  + ligature of doubled  with a shadda ـّ and an ʔalif ḵanjariyya above.
 * In Wiktionary we use ʔalif ḵanjariyya to generate a correct transliteration ("ā") and to indicate a long /aː/. A fatḥa alone, without ʔalif ḵanjariyya or a long alif would be transliterated as a short /a/.