ma biki
what is wrongThe word, broken down.
ما بِكِ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
What does ma biki mean in Arabizi?
ma biki is how you write ما بِكِ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “what is wrong”. 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 — 7 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 health & the body 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 →- 01L→م
- 02H→ا
- 03Space→
- 04F→ب
- 05Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 06;→ك
- 07Shift+A→ـِkasra