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The word
هاتِفَك

hatifak

your telephone
Arabicهاتِفَك
Arabizihatifak
Translationyour telephone
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.

Type:I
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
03
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
06
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
07
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

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 — 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. 01Iه
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Jت
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Tف
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07;ك
Composedهاتِفَك
هاتِفَك
Practice

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