# shadda

> Arabic diacritic indicating the gemination (or reinforcement) of the base consonant

**Wikidata**: [Q1551635](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1551635)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaddah)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/shadda


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#character-references)
3. [Source](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt)