Arabic → Arabizi.
Turn Arabic script into the chat alphabet, the way people actually type it in WhatsApp and Instagram comments. مرحبا becomes mar7aba, and the sounds English can't spell get their numbers: حبيبي comes out 7abibi. Paste a word or a whole message.
Paste Arabic, get Arabizi.
Run it through the Arabizi translator and you get Arabic script back, with the full mapping chart under it.
Ten sounds get numbers. The rest map straight across.
Most Arabic letters have an obvious Latin twin: ب is b, ش is sh. The ten that don't are the throat and emphatic sounds, and chat writes those with the digits that look like them — ح→7, ع→3, خ→5, ط→6, ق→8, ص→9, ء→2, plus the apostrophe variants 3', 6', 9' for the dotted letters. Prefer plain letters? Flip the converter to its letters style and you get kh, gh, q and friends instead.
Shadda doubles the letter (يلّا → yalla), and ta marbuta comes out as a plain a (ساعة → sa3a). Bare script hides its short vowels too, so the converter fills in an a wherever Arabic syllable rules demand one; that's why مرحبا reads mar7aba, not mr7ba.
Want the full letter-by-letter chart? It lives on the Arabizi → Arabic page, and the story behind each digit is on the numbers guide.
The numbers look like the letters.
Put the shapes side by side and the whole trick clicks. Seven digits cover the sounds English can't quite spell; three take an apostrophe for the dotted letters below.
The apostrophe means “add the dot.”
Once you know ع → 3 and that غ is ع with a dot, then 3' → غ makes sense without memorizing anything new.
Questions about Arabizi, answered.
What do the numbers 2, 3, 5 and 7 mean in Arabizi?
They stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent, picked because the digit looks like the letter. 2 is ء, the hamza, a small catch in the throat. 3 is ع, the ayn, which is a mirrored 3. 5 is خ, the kh in Khalid. 7 is ح, a breathy h from deep in the throat, the one in 7abibi. The rest of the set: 6 for ط, 8 for ق, 9 for ص, and an apostrophe after 3, 6 or 9 for the dotted letters غ, ظ and ض.
How do you write Arabic in the chat alphabet?
Most Arabic letters map straight to Latin ones. The ten sounds English can't spell use look-alike digits: 2 for ء, 3 for ع, 5 for خ, 6 for ط, 7 for ح, 8 for ق and 9 for ص, plus 3', 6' and 9' for the dotted letters غ, ظ and ض.
What happens to Arabic short vowels in Arabizi?
Arabic script usually leaves short vowels unwritten, so the converter inserts a light "a" wherever Arabic syllable structure needs one — مرحبا comes out mar7aba, not mr7ba. Text with diacritics is followed exactly: شُكْرًا becomes shukran.
Can I write Arabizi without the numbers?
Yes. The converter's letters style swaps every digit for a plain-letter spelling (kh for خ, gh for غ, q for ق, h for ح) for readers who don't know the number system. The numbers style stays closer to how people actually chat.