tas7u
wake up, you wake upThe word, broken down.
تَصْحوا 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.
An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does tas7u mean in Arabizi?
tas7u is how you write تَصْحوا in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “wake up, you wake up”.
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 — 7 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 daily routine 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
- 03W→ص
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05P→ح
- 06,→و
- 07H→ا