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The word
سَعيد

sa3id

happy
Arabicسَعيد
Arabizisa3id
Translationhappy
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ

A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.

Type:U
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
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

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.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Sس
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Uع
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05]د
Composedسَعيد
سَعيد
Practice

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