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The word
زَوج

zawj

a husband, husband
Arabicزَوج
Arabizizawj
Translationa husband, husband
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
04
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
← 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 — 4 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. 01.ز
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03,و
  4. 04[ج
Composedزَوج
زَوج
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