애 — ae
애 is ㅇ plus ㅐ, romanized ae and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.
Frequency: common — it appears at or above the median frequency in the teaching material behind this site. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.
The two letters
ㅇ (ieung)
silent before a vowel, /ŋ/ in final position
no sound at the start of a syllable; the ng in sing at the end
Words containing 애
- 애매ambiguous
- 우애brotherly love
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 애? +
- 애 is romanized ae and read exactly as written.