The word
أُخْتي
ukhti
my sisterArabicأُخْتي
Arabiziukhti
Translationmy sister
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أُخْتي 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
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
04
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Type:J
05
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03O→خ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06D→ي
Composedأُخْتي