arabictyper
Converter

Arabic → Arabizi.

Turn Arabic script into the chat alphabet, the way people actually type it in WhatsApp and Instagram comments. مرحبا becomes mar7aba, and the sounds English can't spell get their numbers: حبيبي comes out 7abibi. Paste a word or a whole message.

ح7
ع3
ص9
ق8
Ten Arabic sounds have no Latin letter. Chat solved it with digits.
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Paste Arabic, get Arabizi.

Arabic
Arabizi
9aba7 al5ir
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Run it through the Arabizi translator and you get Arabic script back, with the full mapping chart under it.

Arabizi translator
How the mapping works

Ten sounds get numbers. The rest map straight across.

Most Arabic letters have an obvious Latin twin: ب is b, ش is sh. The ten that don't are the throat and emphatic sounds, and chat writes those with the digits that look like them — ح→7, ع→3, خ→5, ط→6, ق→8, ص→9, ء→2, plus the apostrophe variants 3', 6', 9' for the dotted letters. Prefer plain letters? Flip the converter to its letters style and you get kh, gh, q and friends instead.

Shadda doubles the letter (يلّا → yalla), and ta marbuta comes out as a plain a (ساعة → sa3a). Bare script hides its short vowels too, so the converter fills in an awherever Arabic syllable rules demand one; that's why مرحبا reads mar7aba, not mr7ba.

ArabicNumbers styleLetters style
حبيبي7abibihabibi
قهوة8ahwaqahwa
صباح9aba7sabah

Want the full letter-by-letter chart? It lives on the Arabizi → Arabic page, and the story behind each digit is on the numbers guide.

The number → letter chart

The numbers look like the letters.

Put the shapes side by side and the whole trick clicks. Seven digits cover the sounds English can't quite spell; three take an apostrophe for the dotted letters below.

2ءhamza
A glottal stop, the catch in "uh-oh".
The hamza already looks like a little 2.
2 in Arabic, explained →
3عayn
A throaty sound. No clean English equivalent.
3 is a mirrored ع.
3 in Arabic, explained →
5خkha
Like the "ch" in Bach.
5 looks like خ in handwriting.
5 in Arabic, explained →
6طṭa
An emphatic t. Heavier than the English one.
A 6 in the mirror comes close to ط.
6 in Arabic, explained →
7حḥa
A breathy h, deeper than English h.
7 bends the way ح bends.
7 in Arabic, explained →
8قqaf
A deep k from the back of the throat.
Both 8 and ق start with a loop.
8 in Arabic, explained →
9صṣad
The emphatic s, heavier than a plain s.
A 9 has the loop and tail of ص.
9 in Arabic, explained →
Apostrophe variants

The apostrophe means “add the dot.”

Once you know ع → 3 and that غ is ع with a dot, then 3' → غ makes sense without memorizing anything new.

3'
غghayn
6'
ظẓa
9'
ضḍad
عربيزي
Try it

Practice typing Arabic with Arabizi on screen as a guide.

Every word shows both spellings, and audio is a tap away. No Arabic keyboard installed yet? The on-screen Arabic 101 layout is built in.