kashidas

kashidas
The special characters used to extend the joiner between two Arabic characters. Used to improve the appearance of justified text by visually lengthening words rather than increasing the spacing between words. Can also function like a hyphen.
كشيدة

English-Arabic terms dictionary. 2015.

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