hunak
there are, there, there isThe word, broken down.
هُناك reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'k'.
What does hunak mean in Arabizi?
hunak is how you write هُناك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “there are, there, there is”. 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.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 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 home 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 →- 01I→ه
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03K→ن
- 04H→ا
- 05;→ك
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “there” is hunaak (هُناك). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear hunaak on Tfaddalu →