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The word
حين

7in

time, moment, opportunity
Arabicحين
Arabizi7in
Translationtime, moment, opportunity
TypeNoun
Rootح ي ن
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

حين reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

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

Type:P
02
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does 7in mean in Arabizi?

7in is how you write حين in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “time, moment, opportunity”.

The number in 7in
7ح

The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.

For the rest of the chat alphabet, see the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 3 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. 01Pح
  2. 02Dي
  3. 03Kن
Composedحين
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for 7in:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentحين7inthe base form, for one
Pluralأَحْيانa7yanfor three or more
حين
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.