tu7ibb
she loves, like, you love, you like, likes, loves, she likesThe word, broken down.
تُحِبّ 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 '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 tu7ibb mean in Arabizi?
tu7ibb is how you write تُحِبّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “she loves, like, you love, you like, likes, loves, she likes”.
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 →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05F→ب
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “like” is 7abb (حَبّ). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 7abb on Tfaddalu →