assa7ifa
the newspaperThe word, broken down.
اَلْصَّحيفة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does assa7ifa mean in Arabizi?
assa7ifa is how you write اَلْصَّحيفة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the newspaper”.
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.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 11 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
It sits in the jobs & work lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01H→ا
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05W→ص
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08P→ح
- 09D→ي
- 10T→ف
- 11M→ة