yas7u
he wakes up, wakes upThe word, broken down.
يَصْحو reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
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.
What does yas7u mean in Arabizi?
yas7u is how you write يَصْحو in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he wakes up, wakes 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 — 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 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03W→ص
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05P→ح
- 06,→و