Strike the syahi with the fingertips and hold — no release, no ring. In the common Delhi-line nikas the middle finger (or middle and ring together) does the work; Purab styles often use the flat of the fingers for a heavier thud. Either way the sound is a dry consonant, all attack.
Te is the workhorse of closed articulation: it alternates with its partner strokes in Tite and Tirekite and supplies the muted syllables inside dense rela text. Its quality is judged by uniformity — a run of Te strokes should sound machine-even, with no accidental tone leaking through.