Online Hindi keyboard
Click Devanagari letters to write Hindi, or type by sound from an English keyboard. Full letter chart with vowels, consonants, matras and Hindi digits.
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What is on the keyboard
The chart is laid out the way Devanagari is normally taught, not the way a physical keyboard is wired. The first row holds the independent vowels, from अ through औ, plus anusvara and visarga. The next three rows are the consonants in their traditional order, grouped by where in the mouth they are formed — the velars क ख ग घ ङ, then the palatals, the retroflexes and the dentals.
After the consonants come the common conjuncts — क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र — and the letters with a nukta dot, ड़ ढ़ क़ ज़ फ़, which write sounds borrowed from Persian, Arabic and English. Then the matras: the vowel marks that attach to a consonant rather than standing alone. Last are the Devanagari digits ० to ९ and the danda ।, the full stop of Hindi.
Every key is a real button, so you can reach the whole chart with Tab and Enter and a screen reader will announce each letter.
Matras, and why they look odd on their own
A matra is not a letter you can use by itself. It is the mark that turns a consonant's built-in "a" sound into a different vowel: क is ka, and adding the matra ी makes it की, kee. On their own they show as a mark hanging off a dotted circle, which is the font telling you the mark is waiting for a consonant.
One of them behaves differently from all the others, and it causes more confusion than anything else in Devanagari. The matra ि is stored after its consonant but drawn before it. Type क then ि and you see कि, with the mark on the left. Nothing is wrong — that is simply how the script works, and it is the single place where legacy font converters most often get the order backwards.
The halant ् at the end of the matra row does the opposite job: it removes a consonant's vowel so two consonants can join, which is how conjuncts like क्ष are built.