Hindi Keyboard
Click any key to add it to your writing below — Shift for आ/ई/ख/ष and more
Vowels
Matra
Conjunct
Special
Your Hindi Writing
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यहाँ आपकी हिंदी लिखावट दिखेगी…
Roman spelling (or type here phonetically)
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Every key shows the Devanagari letter it types — click it to add that letter to your writing above. Keys with a second, smaller letter also work with Shift turned on (top-right of the keyboard).
Building a word is just clicking its letters in order: for प्यार, click , then , then the matra, then .

Keyboard groups
Vowelsअ आ इ ई उ ऊ
Matrasा ि ी ु ू ं
Conjunctsक्ष त्र ज्ञ श्र
Punctuation। , ? !
Shift+A
Shift+K
Prefer typing fast in English instead? Try the Hindi Typing Tool

A Hindi Keyboard You Don't Have to Learn

Every letter on this on-screen keyboard is labelled in Devanagari — the script itself, not a Roman code you need to memorise. Recognise the letter you want, click it, and it's added to your writing. There is no keyboard layout to learn and nothing to install on your phone or computer.

This is not a different typing engine from the rest of IndianTyping — it's the same phonetic transliteration pipeline used across the site, just reached by clicking instead of typing English. That's why the small "Roman spelling" strip below the writing area still works if you'd rather type namaste than click five separate keys for नमस्ते.

Typing Conjuncts — क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र

Devanagari conjuncts (two consonants joined into one shape) usually need to be built from their parts — but four of the most common ones have their own dedicated keys, styled amber on the keyboard, so you don't need to think about how they're formed: क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ and श्र.

Matras — Vowel Signs

A matra changes the vowel sound attached to a consonant — click a consonant, then a matra, to build syllables like का, कि or कू from the same base consonant . The blue-tinted row above the main keyboard holds every matra.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The Hindi Typing Tool is for converting fast English typing into Hindi text. This page is a writing workspace built around the on-screen keyboard — you compose directly, letter by letter, by clicking. Both use the exact same underlying engine, so a word typed either way comes out identically.
No. Every key shows the Devanagari letter it produces, so you can build a word purely by recognising the letters you want — vowels, consonants, matras, common conjuncts and punctuation are all labelled. Shift reveals a second set (आ, ई, ख, ष and more) for keys with two letters.
Yes — the small input strip below the main writing area accepts normal phonetic English typing too, exactly like the Hindi Typing Tool. The keyboard and typing phonetically both feed the same Hindi text; use whichever is easier for a given word.
It covers every vowel, consonant, matra, common conjunct (क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र) and everyday punctuation. A few sounds — ड़, ढ़, and word-initial ण — are not on the keyboard because this engine forms them from the surrounding word rather than from any single isolated key, so a key for them would not have worked reliably.
Yes. The writing area has no length limit — build up a sentence or a full paragraph a letter at a time, using Backspace to correct mistakes exactly as you would in any text box.