kafi
enoughThe word, broken down.
كافْية reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'k'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does kafi mean in Arabizi?
kafi is how you write كافْية in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “enough”. 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 — 6 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 travel & places 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 →- 01;→ك
- 02H→ا
- 03T→ف
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05D→ي
- 06M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “enough” is khalaS (خَلَص). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear khalaS on Tfaddalu →