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The word
أَكْثَر

akthar

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Arabicأَكْثَر
Arabiziakthar
Translationmore
TypeMasculine
CategoryHobbies
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
04
Letter
ث
thāʾ
th

The 'th' in 'think'. Three dots above the body.

Type:E
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
← 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 — 7 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
  1. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03;ك
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Eث
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Vر
Composedأَكْثَر
أَكْثَر
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