nu7ibb
we love, we likeThe word, broken down.
نُحِبّ 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 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
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 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does nu7ibb mean in Arabizi?
nu7ibb is how you write نُحِبّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “we love, we like”.
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 hobbies 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05F→ب
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda