7aqqan
really, trulyThe word, broken down.
حَقّاً reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Adds an '-an' ending (two slanted strokes above).
What does 7aqqan mean in Arabizi?
7aqqan is how you write حَقّاً in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “really, truly”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 6 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01P→ح
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03R→ق
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05H→ا
- 06Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.