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The word
يُحِبّ

yu7ibb

he loves, he likes, likes
Arabicيُحِبّ
Arabiziyu7ibb
Translationhe loves, he likes, likes
TypeMasculine verb
CategoryHobbies
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

يُحِبّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
06
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does yu7ibb mean in Arabizi?

yu7ibb is how you write يُحِبّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he loves, he likes, likes”.

The number in yu7ibb
7ح

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.

How to type it

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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Dي
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Pح
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Fب
  6. 06Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedيُحِبّ
يُحِبّ
Practice

Type يُحِبّ until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full Hobbies session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

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