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The word
دُوو

duu

Duo
Arabicدُوو
Arabiziduu
TranslationDuo
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

دُوو 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
04
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

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.

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Sequence
  1. 01]د
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03,و
  4. 04,و
Composedدُوو
دُوو
Practice

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