The Abjad system assigns a numerical value to each of the twenty-eight letters of the Arabic alphabet, following an ancient ordering (abjad hawwaz…) inherited from the older Semitic alphabets. Long before Arabic adopted separate digits, these letter-numbers were used to write dates, number verses and label sequences, and they remain familiar across the Arabic-speaking and wider Islamic world.

Adding the values of the letters in a word or name gives its Abjad total. This practice underpins the chronogram, where a meaningful phrase encodes a year, and it features in Arabic calligraphy and in Ilm al-Jafr, a contemplative tradition of letter-and-number symbolism. This tool uses the standard Mashriqi (Eastern) values, normalises common letter variants (hamza forms, tā’ marbūṭa, alif maqṣūra) and ignores diacritics, spaces and non-Arabic characters.

Enter a name or word in Arabic script to see its total value, a reduced single digit (1–9) with a short symbolic note, and a letter-by-letter breakdown. Its tradition of origin is the Arabic and Islamic world. It is offered as a cultural and contemplative reference that honours a rich heritage of letters and numbers, not as a prediction of the future.