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The word
نَظيف

nazif

clean
Arabicنَظيف
Arabizinazif
Translationclean
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ظ
ẓāʾ

An emphatic 'dh' — the deep cousin of dhāl.

Type:/
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

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

Type:T
← 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. 01Kن
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03/ظ
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Tف
Composedنَظيف
نَظيف
Practice

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