The word
سُؤال
su'al
questionArabicسُؤال
Arabizisu'al
Translationquestion
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryDescriptions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
سُؤال 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ؤ
hamza on wāw
ʾ
A glottal stop carried on a wāw.
Type:C
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
05
Letter
ل
lām
l
A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
Type:G
← 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
- 01S→س
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03C→ؤ
- 04H→ا
- 05G→ل
Composedسُؤال