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The word
في

fi

on, about, of, into, at, in, during
Arabicفي
Arabizifi
Translationon, about, of, into, at, in, during
TypePreposition
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
02
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.
Arabizi

What does fi mean in Arabizi?

fi is how you write في in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “on, about, of, into, at, in, during”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: 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 — 2 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 greetings & introductions 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Tف
  2. 02Dي
Composedفي
في
Practice

Type في until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full Greetings & introductions session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

Practice just fiStart the Greetings & introductions set