tadhkara
ticket, a ticketThe word, broken down.
تَذْكَرة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does tadhkara mean in Arabizi?
tadhkara is how you write تَذْكَرة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “ticket, a ticket”. 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 — 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 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 →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03`→ذ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05;→ك
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07V→ر
- 08M→ة