wa7ida
oneThe word, broken down.
واحِدة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
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.
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 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does wa7ida mean in Arabizi?
wa7ida is how you write واحِدة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “one”.
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 food & drink 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 →- 01,→و
- 02H→ا
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05]→د
- 06M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “one” is waa7ad (وَاحَد). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear waa7ad on Tfaddalu →