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The word
حَزين

7azin

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Arabicحَزين
Arabizi7azin
Translationsad
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

حَزين reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

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
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
← 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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Pح
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03.ز
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Kن
Composedحَزين
حَزين
Practice

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