laysa hunak
there are no, there is no, is not thereThe word, broken down.
لَيْسَ هُناك reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
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 laysa hunak mean in Arabizi?
laysa hunak is how you write لَيْسَ هُناك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “there are no, there is no, is not there”. 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 — 12 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 →- 01G→ل
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03D→ي
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Space→
- 08I→ه
- 09Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 10K→ن
- 11H→ا
- 12;→ك