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The word
أُحِبّ

u7ibb

I like, I love, like
Arabicأُحِبّ
Arabiziu7ibb
TranslationI like, I love, like
TypeVerb
CategoryHobbies
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
06
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
← 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 — 6 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. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Pح
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Fب
  6. 06Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedأُحِبّ
أُحِبّ
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