The word
حَجْز
7ajz
reservation, a reservationArabicحَجْز
Arabizi7ajz
Translationreservation, a reservation
TypeMasculine
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
حَجْز reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ
ḥ
A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.
Type:P
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ج
jīm
j
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
Type:[
04
Letter
ز
zāy
z
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
Type:.
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01P→ح
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03[→ج
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05.→ز
Composedحَجْز