How to write in Hindi without any IME

This text written in Devnagri (Hindi).. You will need Unicode support in your Operating system and browser to view it. So If all you get is boxes after this text, your system is Unicode non compliant.

Chatting in Hinglish has become a normal routine for Hindi speaking people.. And with advent of Unicode support in most operating systems and browsers, it has become easy to write in Hindi easily.. The recent versions of MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger support Unicode so now you can chat in Unicode with your friends easily ..

Earlier the only way to do this was either to install an IME on both ends and then communicate or write the text in a transcripter program such as Baraha and copy paste in your IM window .. Well … No more such troubles now .. Now you can directly write in your favorite program in Hindi .. and no fonts installation required .. (Well some installation is required though ;) .. )

हिन्दी में लिखने के लिये आपको जिस software की जरुरत है वह है HindiWriter Keyboad Map. ईसे आप इसके डेवेलपर के वेबसाईट से डाउनलोड कर सकते हें। इसको इन्स्टाल करना काफ़ी आसान है। ईस कमाल के सोफ़्टवेर को बनाया है देवेन्द्र पारख ने।

So, to use HindiWriter, you’ll need to install complex script support on your computer. On Windows XP, you can do so by going to Control Panel and opening Regional and Language options applet. On the Language tab, Enable the option of Install files for complex script and right to left languages. Click on Apply. You may need your XP Cd to complete the installation. Here is a screenshot :
Screenshot of XP Regional Options

For Windows 2000, Goto Control Panel and click on Regional Options. Click on General Tab. Enable ‘Indic’ Click on Apply. You may need your Windows 2000 cd for comleting the installation.

Now the tougher part is over. Just download HindiWriter and install it. Now to type in Hindi, just run the program and press Shift Pause. Hindi keyboard map will be activated and whatever you will type will be converted to Devnagri automatically. It’s a phonetic font so if you want to write श , you can do so by typing sh . So if you can type in Hinglish, you can type in Hindi too .. We are using it successfully with MS Word, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger too .. And you can write in Hindi on Unicode compliant browsers such as Maxthon, Firefox or Opera too …

तो जनाव, इन्तेज़ार किस बात का है ? आज से हिन्दी में बात करना शुरु कर दिजिये !

[Update as on 28 May 2008] Seems like Devendra Parekh’s original website is no more. I’ve updated the download link to SoftPedia now.

93 Responses to “How to write in Hindi without any IME”


  1. 1 Amit Gupta

    वाह, ये तो कमाल हो गया। मैने पहले कोशिश की तो चला नहीं था पर अब चल रहा है। :D

  2. 2 Shahab

    हमारे साथ रहोगे तो ऐसे ही ऐश करोगे …. :P

  3. 3 Kumar Abhinav

    boss,

    the link for the setup.exe is not available. Can you please provide me with te installer,

    regards,
    Abhinav

  4. 4 Shahab

    Hmm… It seems Devendra Parekh’s site is down .. No problem .. I’ll upload it here .. :)
    [EDIT] Hmm … I have edited the mirror of HindiWriter’s setup as Devendra Parekh’s site is down ..

  5. 5 vijay wadnere

    hi Shahab,

    This is cool piece of software.

    I got the software and downloaded, its working fine with my machine (win XP). Yahoo! and MSN are also able to display hindi characters properly.

    But theres is some problem with the receiving end. Though the other machine is having 2000 installed, hindi fonts are not displaying. Can you guess/suggest what could be the problem is?

    जब आप लिखे और आप ही बांचे तो क्या फ़ायदा?

    शुभकामनाऐं !!

  6. 6 Amit Gupta

    Vijay, the receiving end must also be configured for Unicode. So if Unicode is not enabled there, & if it doesn’t have a unicode font, then it won’t display the hindi chars!!

  7. 7 vijay wadnere

    Amit: what is (minimum) procedure to be followed at the “receiver’s” PC so that the hindi characters can be displayed?

    I think on Win XP no special thing is required, but on Win2K, we need to set-up “something”, now the question is “what is this something?”.

  8. 8 Amit Gupta

    what is (minimum) procedure to be followed at the “receiver’s” PC so that the hindi characters can be displayed?

    the same procedure as mentioned above in Shahab’s post, except that he won’t have to install this HindiWriter unless he also wants to write in Hindi.

  9. 9 Dipendra

    hey i cannot find my xp cd can someone please write my name for me its Dipendra thanks alot

  10. 10 Amit Gupta

    here you go!! “दिपेन्द्र” :)

  11. 11 N L Shraman

    How to write half letters? How to write RASTRA in hindi, I find it difficult to write haft letters fo

    KRISHNA, KRUR, SHART ETC please explain

  12. 12 vijay wadnere

    शर्मन जी,

    तरीका यह है कि आपको “स्वर” एवम उनके उच्चारण इत्यादि का ध्यान रखना होगा।
    अधिकतर शब्द जो बिना किसी मात्रा के पूर्ण होते हैं उनके अंत में “a” आयेगा।
    जैसे:
    अमर = amara या amar
    विजय = vijay

    आधे शब्दों के लिये “a” नही लगेगा।
    जैसे:

    शब्द = shabd ~=~ शबद = shabad
    पर = para / par ~=~ प्र = pra
    क्र = kra ~=~ कर = kara / kar

    कहीं कहीं “हलन्त” का प्रयोग भी करना पड सकता है:
    .H हलंत के लिये प्रयुक्त (prayukt) होगा:

    ट्र = T.hra
    राष्ट्र = rAShT.hra
    धान = dhaan / dhAn
    धयान = dhayaan / dhayAn
    ध्यान = dh.hyaan

    विशेष (visheSh) मात्राएं (matraae.n):

    कृष्णा = kRRiShNaa
    शर्त = sharta / shart
    क्रुर = krur
    क्षमा = kShamaa
    लक्ष्य = lakShya
    ॠषि = RRiShi

    उम्मीद है, अब आपको हिन्दी लिखने में कोई परेशानी नहीं होगी।
    -
    वियय वडनेरे

  13. 13 Dipendra

    thank u very much Amit :D does anyone here wish to talk over msn i do nto have many friends from india i was born in mauritius :D

  14. 14 vijay wadnere

    कोई बताने का कष्ट करेगा क्या कि -hindiwriter में बिना बिन्दु का चाँद कैसे बनेगा? जैसे blog, Toy लिखने में होगा।

    अग्रिम धन्यवाद!!

  15. 15 Shahab

    विजय जी, अगर आप हिन्दी राईटर का कीबोर्ड मेप देखेन्गे तो पाऐंगे की बिना बिन्दु का चाँद कहीं नही है। अब हम देवेन्द्र पारख जी को ईमेल कर के इस के बारे में आगाह करते हैं। जब तक आप “औ” से काम चलाईए।

  16. 16 paresh

    This is excellent…

  17. 17 Shahab

    विजय जी, देवेन्द्र जी ने हमारे ईमेल का जवाब दिया है और कहा है कि यह परेशानी हिन्दी राईटर के अगले वर्ज़न में ठीक कर दी जाएगी, जो बहुत जल्दी रिलीज़ होने की ऊम्मीद है। तो जनाब कुछ दिन इन्तज़ार कीजिए जल्दी ही आप बिना बिन्दु का चाँद बना सकेंगे !

  18. 18 Amit Gupta

    तब तक कॉपी-पेस्ट करके इससे काम चलाएँ।


    :)

  19. 19 Nitya

    Hey, I don’t have my XP cd with me now at the moment. So can someone type my name in himdi so i can use it on msn? The name is: Nitya. Thanks!

  20. 20 Shahab

    Okay Nitya, Here you go :

    नित्या

    Enjoy .. !

  21. 21 Amit Gupta

    Nitya, if you want, you can use Uninagari(use IE for this, supports Opera as well but not good) as well to write Hindi without installing any software, though I’d recommend using HindiWriter if you can!! :)

  22. 22 Nitya

    Thank you for writing my name as well as giving me the link to the other site. I will check it out soon :).

  23. 23 Michelle

    I am an Australian with an Indian friend who resides in Aus. He recently went to India to see his family and purchased my daughter and I some lovely gifts. His mother helped him choose, and I would love to say thank you to her also. I know my friend speaks English but I imagine his mother does not. Can anyone please show me how to write “thank you” in Hindi? I will enlarge the text and use it on the front of a card I will hand make.

  24. 24 Amit Gupta

    ok Michelle, here you go, its:

    धन्यवाद

    & if you want something similar in future, look up at http://www.shabdkosh.com/ where you can enter an english word & get its meaning in hindi. :)

  25. 25 Michelle

    thanks so much Amit. i tried searching the web for a converter but couldn’t find one :)

  26. 26 erdem

    msneyi veeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr

  27. 27 रिव

    क्या बात है

  28. 28 anil kumar

    अब सब लीखना आसान हो गोया ।

  29. 29 अमित गहरवार

    भाई साहबजी,

    ये सौफ्टवेयर तो मस्त है।

    बस एक गुज़ारीश है , किसी तरह आधा चँद्र बिंदु लिख्नना बता दो॥

    जय राम जी की

  30. 30 पंकज नरुला

    वैसे तो जितने उपाय लिखने के हों उतना ही अच्छा है। पर मेरे ख्याल से यदि आपने Indic Script लगा लिए तो उसके बाद तो सिर्फ रिजनल सेटिंग्स में जाकर हिन्दी जोड़नी ही रह जाती है। मैं आजतक XP पर ऐसे ही करते आ रहा हूँ। आप भी देखिए व बताईए कि फिर hindiwriter की जरुरत कहाँ होगी।

    पंकज

  31. 31 Amit Gupta

    पता नहीं पंकज भाई, जब हिन्दी राईटर सही चलता है तो फ़िर काहे पंगा लिया जाए!! ;)
    और शाहाब भाई, हम लोगों ने एक हिन्दी फ़ोरम लगाया है, नाम है परिचर्चा। आओ और हिन्दी में बात करो। :)

  32. 32 Shahab

    पंकज जी, हमें लगता है आप हिन्दी Language Interface Pack (LIP) की बात कर रहे हैं। लेकिन अगर आप धयान दें तो पायेंगे कि इस लेख का शीर्शक है How to write in Hindi without any IME. LIP से हमारा अनुभव कुछ खास अच्छा नही रहा है इसलिए उसके बिना ज़िन्दगी कैसे गुज़ारी जाए यही तलाश हमें HindiWriter तक लाई।

  33. 33 Sahil

    ंउझे एक बात पता करनी है। ok its much easier to write this way. Anyways so for the other person to receive the messages in Hindi.. the person has to go to control panel. Click on the settin etc.. bt doesnt have to download the software.
    Ai thnx..

  34. 34 Shahab

    साहिल जी, यह मैसेजेस को पढने के लिए कोई सैटिन्ग्स चेन्ज करने की ज़रुरत नही है। सामने वाले के पास सिर्फ़ Unicode aware Operating System होना चाहिए। ज़ैसे के Windows XP, 2000, 2003 .. Linux ..

  35. 35 ghanshyam

    I am very very impressed with this software and i really thankx to you for your this wonderful creation.Now it is very easy to write in hindi only by you.
    I have a problem to write a word because i am going to print a CD of bhajan’s geet for free distributing to my known people’s.
    my word is=paarshavnaath
    पार्शवनाथ= आधा र जो श के उपर है वो मुझे व के उपर लगाना है।कृपया मुझे इस शब्द को लिख्नने का तरीका बताऐ।
    धन्यवाद

  36. 36 Shahab

    घनश्याम जी, इस सोफ़्टवैर को बनाया है देवेन्द्र जी ने। हम ने तो सिर्फ़ यह टयुटोरियल लिखा है।
    अब आपके सवाल का जवाब।
    पाशर्वनाथ : pasharvanaath
    वैसे हमारे ख्याल से सही spelling पार्श्वनाथ होनी चाहिए।

  37. 37 vijay wadnere

    अंग्रेजी में हिज्जे इस प्रकार से हैं:

    पार्श्वनाथ : paarshvanaath

  38. 38 न्म

    मै पेह्अली बार हिन्दी मे लिकह रहा हू , एस लिये शमा चाह्ता हू
    that was tuff!! धीरे धीरे सीख जा ऊगा । क्रिपया मुझे बतिये की हिन्दी मे Blog marne ke liya URL hindi mein hona zaroori nahi hai kya? jaise http://www.shahabjafri.com/ जिसे अग्रेजी नही आती वो भला अग्रेजी मे कैसे लिखेगा ??
    Main bhi hindi mein blog karna chaahata hoon

    परणाम

  39. 39 kishan

    शहाब जी… क्या यह सम्भव है कि यूनिकोड फोंन्ट्स को किसी और फोंट्स के रुप मे कंवर्ट किया जा सके
    के कुमार

  40. 40 Arvind

    भाइ एक समस्या ये हे कि मै याहु मेसेन्जर मै सिधे हिन्दी मै नही लिख पा रहा हु ! लेकिन नोटपेड मै हिन्दी मै सन्देश लिख कर कोपी - पेस्ट करता हु तो काम चल जाता है ? यह केसी विकट समस्या है ? क्र्प्या मदद करे !

    तथा हिन्दी मै लिखे अक्शर बहुत छोटे दिखायी देते है ? क्र्पया मदद करे !

    धन्यवाद,
    अरविन्द

  41. 41 चन्तु

    येह एक तेस्त मेस्सगे है शुक्रिया !

    हा हा हा

  42. 42 Mitendra Anand

    Pleas write these words for me
    1. Faculty
    2. Khud
    3. Ansal Plaza

    You have done a superb job, by making this software

  43. 43 Adnan

    Azeezam, Shahab bhai, az-had shukr-guzaar huuN. MaiN kuchh nazmeN devnagri rasm-ulKhat meN likhnaa chaahta thaa aur aapke blog ki madad se yeh ba-aasaani mumkin ho gaya.

  44. 44 Jitendra Kumar

    Hello,
    I am a software developer I have just got a requirement to develop web pages in Hindi. Can anyone tell me what is the required software user needs to install to see web pages. And what software do I need to develop.

    Regards,
    Jitendra

  45. 45 Shahab

    Jitendra, You can use Dynamic fonts for creating websites in multilingual interface. The problem with Unicode is that it will display only in supported machines whereas dynamic fonts like EOT (Microsoft) or PFR (Bitstream) will work on any machine.
    You can have a look here

  46. 46 Decorte

    can you please translate “what nourishes me destroys me.”
    ?????

  47. 47 चन्तु

    Janab Shahab Saheb

    Inspired from your hindi blog and tutorial on how to write in hindi it seems BollywoodSARGAM has also launched their hindi website.

    http://hindi.bollywoodsargam.co.in/

    Cheers
    Chantu

  48. 48 चन्तु

    Reply to Mitendra Anand
    Please write these words for me
    1. Faculty - फ़ेक्ल्टी या फ़ेकुल्टी
    2. Khud - खुद
    3. Ansal Plaza - अंसल प्लाज़ा

    ========
    Decorte
    please translate “what nourishes me destroys me.”

    Tough one !

    “जो मुझे आबाद करता हे वही मुझे बरबाद करता हे”

    ========

    My hindi has improved ;)
    Thanks !
    Chantu

  49. 49 vshakha

    mitra,
    mushkil to asan kar sakte ho tum
    par kya karu?xp ki cd jo nahi???
    kaise hindime likhu?
    rgds
    vshakha

  50. 50 Avi

    Hello,

    Please let me know how to write my last name in hindi: TAHAN

    Thanks a lot,
    Avi

  51. 51 Ahsaan

    Mai hindi mai HTML page banana chahta hu…
    koi step by step method batayee….atee kripa hogi..

    Dhanyawad

  52. 52 Nripen

    इसी सोफ़्टव्य्र्र को तो ढूड रहा था मई

  53. 53 beta

    Please write these names for me:
    Ines Beatriz

    Beta

    Elisabete Rego

  54. 54 Shahab

    Here you go Beta:

    आईनिस बीटरिज़
    बीटा
    एलिज़ाबेथ रीगो

    Enjoy .. !

  55. 55 Shahab

    And here you go Avi .. :

    अवि तहान

    माफ करना यार आज कल ओफिस में काफी मसरुफियत है इसलिए जल्दी रिप्लाए नही कर सका

  56. 56 चन्तु

    Ahsaan => Mai hindi mai HTML page banana chahta hu…
    koi step by step method batayee….atee kripa hogi..

    Dhanyawad

    Reply => Mamu jaan Is wbepage ke start se end tak saari ramayan padh li phir pooch rahe hai ki batao bhai Ramayan kaise padhu ?

    Mera joke Samaj nahi aaya ?

    Read the tutorial above uske baad bhi aap agar hindi mai webpage nahi bana pao toh webmonkey.com zindabad. Start begineer tutorial there. And come back here after you know basics of HTML.

    Chantu

  57. 57 Sanjay Jaiswal

    i have developed a hindi website purviyasanskriti.org,and i have used .eot dynamic font..but hindi font is not shoing perfectly ..its showing unwanted space and words r distracting..can any one tell me y this is happeing and how can i come out of such probs

  58. 58 srikar

    how 2 write don ko pakadna mushkilnahi na mumkinha

  59. 59 Vishal Monpara

    You can get easy to use Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu type writer at http://www.vishalon.net.

    If you want to chat in all these languages in yahoo messenger, you can visit http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/1711 and download the plug in.

  60. 60 Shahab

    @ Srikar, Here you go:

    डान को पकड़ना मुश्किल नही, नामुमकिन है.

  61. 61 Nitin

    You may also use this website to write Hindi:
    http://hindikalam.com

  62. 62 Shahab

    There are a hundred lot of such sites. But it isnt practical to open a website and type there and copy paste again and again. With HindiWriter you just type in Hinglish and it will be displayed in Hindi. No fuss ..

  63. 63 श्रीश । Shrish

    भाई साहव पोस्ट का टाईटल ठीक नहीं है, HindiWriter भी एक IME (Input Methor Editor) ही है।

  64. 64 जान्वी

    य्ह तो कमाल हो गया। मै यहां विदेश मे एक मन्दिर के साथ काम कर रहि हुं, और यह software बहुत काम आ रहा है। शुक्रिया उनका जिस ने इसे बनाया।

    शुक्रिया,
    जान्वी:)

  65. 65 दीपक

    वाह वाह! बहुत बहुत धन्यावाद!

  66. 66 tamuira

    how do i write Save The Tiger in Hindi?

  67. 67 Shahab

    There you go :

    Save the tiger : सेव दा टाईगर

    Translated in Hindi : शेर को बचाओ

  68. 68 Mahavir

    Thkx very much buddy….

  69. 69 pawanjee

    i am very glad. because i cannot think about the how to write and learn in hindi without pay any cost. but i currently i can write and learn in eassly through this software.
    Thanks
    Pawan

  70. 70 Monusoft

    Hi Shahab,

    You can get Hindi comment writing plugin for WordPress from http://www.monusoft.com/Products/WordPressPlugin/tabid/187/Default.aspx

    This plugin allows your reader to type comments directly in Hindi without requiring any program installtion and from any OS which supports Unicode.

  71. 71 Sudhir

    Hi:

    Excellent info!! I was trying this out on YAHOO messenger - but it doesnt work. it works great on MSN messenger - but all i see are ????? on the screen in yahoo.

    can someone please help me!!

    शुकरिया

  72. 72 Shrish

    @Sudhir,
    याहू मैंसेंजर पर बारहा आईएमई तो काम करता नहीं साथ ही कभी कभी हिन्दीराइटर भी दिक्कत करता है। अतः आप आईएमई का प्रयोग कर सकते हैं। ये विंडोज में सबसे ज्यादा कंपैटिबल है सब ऐप्लीकेशनों में चलता है।

    हिन्दी टाइपिंग, ब्लॉगिंग और कंप्यूटिंग संबंधी सभी जानकारी आप लोग सर्वज्ञ विकी पर पा सकते हैं, कोई दिक्कत होने पर परिचर्चा फोरम पर पूछ सकते हैं।

  73. 73 dk

    i feel problem to type in hindi so i want this

  74. 74 ANUNAD SINGH

    There are more than fifty hindi writing tools as of today.

    Here is a complete list:

    WikiPedia Link

  75. 75 Bill

    MSN I NIIPET
    MSN

  76. 76 Melissa

    How can you write my name, ‘MELISSA’,in hindi character?
    Thanks. Melissa (from Brazil)

  77. 77 Shahab

    Hi Melisa .. This is how you’ll write Melisa in Hindi :

    मेलीसा

    Enjoy .. !

  78. 78 vijay wadnere

    मेरे ख्याल से तो छोटी इ की मात्रा लगनी चाहिये.

    “मेलिसा”

    “लि” पर ज़ोर थोड़ा कम ही रहता है ना बोलते समय.

  79. 79 john

    Seems that certain webpages automatically select the encoding. I sent a mail to myself via yahoo and opened it up in the browser. It showed as jibberish. I went to VIEW –> ENCODING and changed it to Unicode and was able to see the script fine. But then I closed tab, opened up a new yahoo mail tab and it was set to Western again. So if I send someone a mail, they will always have to select Unicode… seems like a pain… Maybe I’m missing something.

  80. 80 john

    Seems that certain webpages automatically select the encoding. I sent a mail to myself via yahoo and opened it up in the browser. It showed as jibberish. I went to VIEW –> ENCODING and changed it to Unicode and was able to see the script fine. But then I closed the tab, opened up a new yahoo mail tab and it was set to Western again. So if I send someone a mail, they will always have to re-select Unicode… seems like a pain… Maybe I’m missing something.

  81. 81 prasad

    Can someone write prasad in hindi.
    Thanks

  82. 82 Beba

    I need to know how to write Perales-Esteban-Monica-and De Leon in Hindi…can anyone be of any HELP… Thank You

  83. 83 Shahab

    @ Prasad :

    प्रसाद

    @Beba :

    पेरालेस
    एस्टेबान
    मोनिका
    डि लियोन

    Are these your friends …?

  84. 84 vishrut

    i have one more alternative to this
    try using this site: http://www.quillpad.in
    its great.using this site u can conveniently do
    hindi language typing
    search using hindi keywords and it’s applcation (lyrics search etc.)
    put a hindi search feature on ur own blog/website using

  85. 85 हीरेन्द्र सोनकेशरी

    प्यारे भाइयों और बहनों,
    मैंने याहू मैसेन्जर में हिन्दी मे लिखने कि कोशिश की मगर नाकामयाब रहा।
    कोइ मुझे बताये कि कैसे करना है?

    Advance मे धन्यवाद ……

  86. 86 elownerinovex

    I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

  87. 87 prachi

    Abhi meray paas XP ki CD nahi hai.Mujhay translator kay baaray mein kuch nahi pata.

    Isiliye poochna tha ki mein ek site bana rahi hun “vipkavi.googlepages.com” abhi toh yeh bus pehlaa kadam hai………mujhay isko aur accha banana hai with animations and hindi words

    ….lekin ab problem yeh aa rahi hai ki mujhay kahin per english to hindi translator nahi mil raha hai………agar mil raha hai toh ashudhiyan bahut ho rahi hain…….ya kahin bata raha hai not compatible bata raha hai…

    toh kya aap ka translator meri madad is sthiti mein kar sakta hai kya????????????? Agar nahi toh pls bata deejiyay mujhay XP ki CD ka intzaam nahi karna padayga.

  88. 88 Vivek

    आपके सुझाव पर मैंने Hindi Writer देखा। ये http://www.bhashaindia.com के Indic IME से बेहतर लगा। लेकिन अगर मैं windows vista IE7 में लिखुं तो ये सिर्फ ??? ही देता है। Indic IME सही काम कर रहा है? कोई सुझाव?

    वैसे Indic IME मे मुझे “ञ” लिखना नहीं आ रहा है। कोई सुझाव?

  89. 89 Shanti

    PLease convert from English to Hindi name: “Shanti”

  90. 90 Shahab

    Whoops Shanti … Sorry for such late reply .. : Here you go :

    शान्ति

  91. 91 domenic

    To all,
    anyone can help me tranlate my english name to hindi?
    my name “Domenic” because i plan to get a tattoo on to it…
    THanks!! :P

  92. 92 basant

    please gudie me to write the name in HINDI-MOHAMMED HUSSAM

  93. 93 sona

    hi,can sm1 gimme link of d site to download hindiwriter…………..thanx!

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