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The word
دَجاج

dajaj

chicken
Arabicدَجاج
Arabizidajaj
Translationchicken
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

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
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

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 — 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. 01]د
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03[ج
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05[ج
Composedدَجاج
دَجاج
Practice

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