The word
حِذاء
7idha'
a pair of shoesLetter by letter
The word, broken down.
حِذاء 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
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
Type:`
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
05
Letter
ء
hamza
ʾ
A glottal stop — the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
Type:X
← 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03`→ذ
- 04H→ا
- 05X→ء
Composedحِذاء