na7nu
weThe word, broken down.
نَحْنُ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
What does na7nu mean in Arabizi?
na7nu is how you write نَحْنُ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “we”.
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 — 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 →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05K→ن
- 06Shift+E→ـُḍamma
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “we” is 'i7na (إِحْنا). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 'i7na on Tfaddalu →