The word
شُكْراً
shukran
thank youArabicشُكْراً
Arabizishukran
Translationthank you
TypeAdverb
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
شُكْراً reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ش
shīn
sh
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
Type:A
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ك
kāf
k
A plain 'k'.
Type:;
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an
Adds an '-an' ending — two slanted strokes above.
Type:Shift+W
← 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
- 01A→ش
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03;→ك
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06H→ا
- 07Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedشُكْراً