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Hindi Keyboard Online
This Hindi keyboard online puts big, easy-to-tap Devanagari keys on your screen — and it also listens to your real keyboard. Type English letters on your physical keyboard and they turn into Hindi as you finish each word. No Hindi layout to memorise, nothing to install.
Words convert as you press Space. You can also press the Convert button at any time.
Letters you are typing now (they convert when you press Space): —
How to use this Hindi typing tool
- Click or tap the big on-screen keys to type letter by letter.
- Or type on your real keyboard: English letters collect in the "typing now" line and convert into Hindi when you press Space.
- After a consonant key, tap a sign from the second row (ा ि ी ु ू े ै ो ौ) to change its vowel.
- Join letters with the halant key (्) between them — क + ् + त = क्त — or tap क्ष and ज्ञ directly.
- Made a mistake? The Backspace key deletes the last letter, or the last un-converted English letter.
- Copy your Hindi text, or download it as a .txt file.
How it works — the typing scheme
Your physical keyboard follows the mapping chart below — the same phonetic scheme as the English-letters tab. Each English key stands for a Hindi sound: k = क, kh = ख, sh = श, and capital T = the hard ट while small t = the soft त. As you type, the English letters you have pressed wait in the "typing now" line above the text box. When you press Space, Enter or a punctuation mark, the finished word is converted and placed in the box. That pause is what lets the keyboard tell k and kh apart.
The on-screen keys always type instantly, one character per tap, in the traditional Devanagari order: vowels first, then the signs (matras), then the consonants in their sound groups, then the digits ०–९. An apostrophe forces a halant, and a capital M gives the anusvara dot (ं). Everyday words like mera, ram and kya are matched first, so they always come out as मेरा, राम and क्या.
| You type | At the start of a word | After a consonant (sign) |
|---|---|---|
| a | अ | — (no sign) |
| aa | आ | ा |
| i | इ | ि |
| ee | ई | ी |
| u | उ | ु |
| oo | ऊ | ू |
| e | ए | े |
| ai | ऐ | ै |
| o | ओ | ो |
| au | औ | ौ |
| ri | ऋ | ृ |
| You type | Letter | You type | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ka | क | na | न |
| kha | ख | pa | प |
| ga | ग | pha | फ |
| gha | घ | ba | ब |
| nga | ङ | bha | भ |
| cha | च | ma | म |
| chha | छ | ya | य |
| ja | ज | ra | र |
| jha | झ | la | ल |
| nya | ञ | va | व |
| Ta | ट | sha | श |
| Tha | ठ | Sha | ष |
| Da | ड | sa | स |
| Dha | ढ | ha | ह |
| Na | ण | ksha | क्ष |
| ta | त | gya | ज्ञ |
| tha | थ | za | ज़ |
| da | द | Ra | ड़ |
| dha | ध |
| Special rule | You get | Note |
|---|---|---|
| M (capital M) | ं | Anusvara, the dot sound — haM = हं |
| ' (apostrophe) | ् | Halant — cuts the vowel: k'ta = क्त |
| word ending | (no sign) | A consonant at the end of a word drops its vowel sound |
On a phone or tablet there is no physical keyboard, so the big on-screen keys are the main way to type — they grow to a comfortable tapping size on small screens, and the whole tool works by touch. If the "typing now" line shows letters you did not mean, Backspace removes them one at a time before they convert.
Worked example
Let us type भारत (Bharat) using a real keyboard.
Step 1: Type bharat. The "typing now" line shows bharat — nothing is converted yet.
Step 2: Press Space. The word is matched as an everyday word and lands in the box as भारत, followed by your space.
Now the same word with the on-screen keys: tap भ, then the ा sign, then र, then त. The box shows भारत again — four taps, because the sign is a separate key.
Why an online Hindi keyboard helps
Most computers in India ship with only an English layout active, and the system Hindi layout means learning a second key map — InScript — where क sits on a key whose Latin letter gives no hint. An online keyboard removes that step: the letters are printed on the keys, and the physical-keyboard mapping uses sound, so sh simply sounds like श.
The big keys matter on touchscreens, where the standard on-screen keyboards of many phones bury the matras and joined letters behind long-press menus. Here every sign has a visible key. Teachers use pages like this so a whole class can type Hindi on shared computers.
FAQ
How do I type Hindi with my real keyboard here?
Just start typing English letters while the Hindi keyboard tab is open. The letters collect in the "typing now" line — that is the transliteration buffer — and when you press Space, Enter or a punctuation mark, the finished word converts into Hindi and appears in the text box. The mapping is by sound: k = क, kh = ख, sh = श, capital T = the hard ट, small t = the soft त. The full chart is shown on this page.
Why do my English letters appear only after I press Space?
Because one Hindi sound can need two or three English letters. If the keyboard converted the moment you pressed k, it could never know whether you meant क or the start of ख (kh). Waiting until you finish the word lets it choose correctly. The "typing now" line always shows what is waiting, and Backspace edits those waiting letters one at a time before they convert.
Can I use this Hindi keyboard on my phone?
Yes. On a phone or tablet, use the big on-screen keys — they are sized for tapping and hold every letter, sign and digit, including joined letters like क्ष and the halant key. There is nothing to install and no settings to change, which makes it handy on shared or borrowed devices. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
How do I type vowel signs and joined letters?
On the on-screen keyboard, tap a consonant and then a sign from the second row: क + ि = कि, क + े = के. For joined letters, tap the halant key (्) between two consonants: क + ् + त = क्त, or tap the ready-made क्ष and ज्ञ keys. On a physical keyboard the same joins happen automatically as words convert, and an apostrophe forces a halant anywhere: k'ta gives क्त.
The keyboard converted a word wrongly. What can I do?
Check the capitals first — T and t are different letters, and long vowels need double letters like aa and ee. If the word is still wrong, delete it and tap it out on the on-screen keys instead, where every character is exactly what you tap. The two methods write into the same text box, so you can fix a single word by hand without retyping the sentence.
Is this Hindi keyboard free and private?
Yes, it is completely free and needs no sign-up. Everything happens in your browser: the conversion, the counters and the preview all run on your device, and nothing you type is uploaded or stored. Use Copy to paste your text into any app, or Download .txt to save it as a UTF-8 file that keeps the Hindi letters correct.