mud7ika
funnyThe word, broken down.
مُضْحِكة 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 short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does mud7ika mean in Arabizi?
mud7ika is how you write مُضْحِكة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “funny”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 — 8 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 descriptions 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
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03Q→ض
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05P→ح
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07;→ك
- 08M→ة