qabi7
uglyThe word, broken down.
قَبيح reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
What does qabi7 mean in Arabizi?
qabi7 is how you write قَبيح in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “ugly”.
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 — 5 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 family 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 →- 01R→ق
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04D→ي
- 05P→ح