Arabic Keyboard لوحة المفاتيح العربية
Type Arabic online: tap the letters below or use your own keyboard, add vowel marks, then copy your text — or look up any word to hear it from native speakers.
How to type in Arabic
- Tap the letters on the keyboard above, or just type: each key of your own keyboard gives the Arabic letter printed on the same key of an Arabic keyboard (Q is ض, H is ا, B is لا).
- Hold Shift for the vowel marks (harakat) and hamza forms, or use the row of marks above the letters. Type the letter first, then its mark.
- Copy your text and paste it anywhere: an email, a document, a search engine or a message.
Vowel marks (harakat)
Arabic is usually written without short vowels, but learners, poems, the Quran and children's books show them as small marks above or below the letter.
| Mark | Name | Sound | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَ | fatha (فتحة) | short a | Shift+Q |
| بُ | damma (ضمة) | short u | Shift+E |
| بِ | kasra (كسرة) | short i | Shift+A |
| بْ | sukun (سكون) | no vowel | Shift+X |
| بّ | shadda (شدة) | double letter | Shift+` |
| بً | tanwin fath (تنوين فتح) | -an | Shift+W |
| بٌ | tanwin damm (تنوين ضم) | -un | Shift+R |
| بٍ | tanwin kasr (تنوين كسر) | -in | Shift+S |
Arabic on your phone or computer
On a phone, this page works with the keyboard above. To type Arabic everywhere, add the Arabic keyboard in your phone's settings (Keyboards on iPhone, Languages & input on Android) or your computer's language settings (Windows and macOS both include it) — the letters sit on the same keys as here.