The word
هاتِفي
hatifi
my phone, my telephoneArabicهاتِفي
Arabizihatifi
Translationmy phone, my telephone
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHome →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
هاتِفي 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
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
← 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 — 6 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
- 01I→ه
- 02H→ا
- 03J→ت
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05T→ف
- 06D→ي
Composedهاتِفي