The word
آخُذ
akhudh
I takeLetter by letter
The word, broken down.
آخُذ reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
آ
alif madda
ā
A long 'aa' — an alif with a wave on top that stretches the vowel.
Type:Shift+N
02
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
03
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
04
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, 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 — 4 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
- 01Shift+N→آ
- 02O→خ
- 03Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 04`→ذ
Composedآخُذ