The word
زَوْجي
zawji
my husbandArabicزَوْجي
Arabizizawji
Translationmy husband
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
زَوْجي 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:[
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
- 01.→ز
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03,→و
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05[→ج
- 06D→ي
Composedزَوْجي