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The word
جاهِز

jahiz

ready
Arabicجاهِز
Arabizijahiz
Translationready
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

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

Type:[
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

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

Type:I
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

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[ج
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Iه
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05.ز
Composedجاهِز
جاهِز
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