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Remington Hindi Keyboard Online

Type Hindi on your ordinary keyboard with the Remington typewriter layout - the one Kruti Dev typists and exam candidates learn. Type in the Kruti Dev box and the Hindi appears beside it in Unicode, ready to paste anywhere. The full key chart is below.

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Works with text in Kruti Dev 010, 011, 012, 014, 016 and 055, which share one keyboard. From a Word file, Word’s curly quotes and dashes and the Hindi digits of Kruti Dev 055 are read too. Kruti Dev 020 has another layout: use DevLys 020 to Unicode.

Please review the output. Matra order and the common conjuncts (क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र) are handled, but rare characters in very old documents may still differ. Nothing you type is uploaded. This page converts entirely inside your browser.

The full Remington layout

Font: Kruti Dev 010 · Keyboard: Remington (typewriter) layout · Language: Hindi

Every key, from the Kruti Dev 010 font itself: the Shift character on top, the English key in the middle, what the key types on its own below. The shaded keys are the home row.

How to use

  1. Click the Kruti Dev box and type with the Remington layout: d for क, k for the ा sign, Hkkjr for भारत.
  2. The other box shows your words as Unicode Hindi as you type, with the ि sign and the reph already where Unicode needs them.
  3. Copy the Unicode into WhatsApp, email, Word or a form. It shows in any Hindi font, so the person reading it needs no Kruti Dev.

Tip:Looking for a letter? Find it in the chart below: the top of each key is its Shift character, the bottom is what it types on its own.

Worked examples

Real phrases run through this converter, so you can compare them with your own text and see what the page does before you paste anything.

  1. The short i sign is typed before its letter in the old font

    Kruti Dev
    fgUnh Hkk"kk
    Unicode / Hindi
    हिन्दी भाषा

  2. The reph (र्) is typed after its syllable in the old font

    Kruti Dev
    dk;kZy; esa deZpkjh
    Unicode / Hindi
    कार्यालय में कर्मचारी

  3. A letter with र (ra) joined underneath

    Kruti Dev
    iz'u dk mRrj
    Unicode / Hindi
    प्रश्न का उत्तर

  4. Letters that join into one shape

    Kruti Dev
    {ks=h; Kku
    Unicode / Hindi
    क्षेत्रीय ज्ञान

  5. A whole sentence with its full stop

    Kruti Dev
    Hkkjr dh jkt/kkuh ubZ fnYyh gSA
    Unicode / Hindi
    भारत की राजधानी नई दिल्ली है।

Each example comes from this converter's own rules and is checked in both directions every time the site is built. A phrase that fails the check is left out.

Good to know

  • In this font the colon in a heading such as विषय: is typed with the visarga key. It converts to the visarga ः, which looks like a colon but is a different character. If a portal or a search needs a real colon, replace it.

Common problems & fixes

The box I type in shows English letters
That is expected. Remington keystrokes are English letters until a font or a converter draws them as Hindi. The Unicode box beside it is your Hindi.
ि lands on the wrong letter
In Remington you type ि first: fd gives कि. Typed the other way round, df, it attaches to the next letter instead.
I cannot find half letters
They are mostly on Shift: D is क्, E is म्. Hold Shift with the little finger of the other hand, as on a typewriter.
Typing on a phone is awkward
Remington is a ten-finger layout for a physical keyboard. On a phone, the on-screen Hindi keyboard or your phone's own Hindi keypad is quicker.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Remington Hindi keyboard?
The Hindi typewriter layout, brought to computers by fonts such as Kruti Dev and DevLys. Each Hindi letter sits on an English key - d is क, j is र - and letters without a key of their own are made from two, like Hk for भ.
Is Remington the same as InScript?
No. InScript is the Unicode layout built into Windows and Android, and it puts letters on different keys: on InScript k is क, on Remington it is the ा sign. Remington vs InScript compares them.
Do I need Kruti Dev installed to type here?
No. Your keystrokes are converted to Unicode Hindi in the browser, so the result shows in any font. You need Kruti Dev only if you want the raw keys to look like Hindi inside Word.
Can I print the layout?
Yes. The Kruti Dev keyboard chart is a one-page A4 PDF of this layout, and the finger chart shows which finger presses each key.

How the Remington layout works

Remington is the Hindi typewriter keyboard. Typists learned it on machines, and Kruti Dev 010 and DevLys carried it onto computers unchanged, which is why typing institutes and many exams still teach it. The most-used letters sit under the strongest fingers: the home row types ं े क ि ह ी र ा स य, so a typist resting there reaches a large share of everyday Hindi without moving.

Three habits cover most of the rest. Letters with no key of their own are built from a half form and the ा stroke: H is भ्, so Hk is भ. Shift gives most half letters. And the ि sign is typed before its consonant, because that is where it is drawn.

Typing Hindi here without learning it first

With the chart open you can hunt for keys, and the converter does the hard part: it turns Remington keystrokes into correctly ordered Unicode, putting ि after its consonant and the reph before its syllable. That is why the result can go straight into email or a website, where Kruti Dev text would show as English letters.

Learning it properly

For a typing exam, hunting for keys will not get you to 30 WPM. The Hindi typing tutor teaches this layout row by row with a finger guide, and the exam typing test times you the way SSC, CPCT and the courts do.