tin
fig, figsThe word, broken down.
تين reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
What does tin mean in Arabizi?
tin is how you write تين in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “fig, figs”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.
New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 3 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01J→ت
- 02D→ي
- 03K→ن
This word is one of the site’s own additions to the list: it is too common in everyday speech to leave out, and the subtitle corpus does not rank it. More on the acknowledgements page.