How do you pronounce 왜?

왜 is romanized wae and read exactly as written.

왜

왜 — wae

왜 is ㅇ plus ㅙ, romanized wae 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

ㅙ

/wɛ/

the we in wet, with a more open vowel than ㅞ

Words containing 왜

왜why
왜곡distortion

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅇ)

Same vowel (ㅙ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 왜?: 왜 is romanized wae and read exactly as written.