ㅢ
Korean vowel · /ɰi/
ㅢ is /ɰi/ — the ㅡ sound gliding straight into ㅣ. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 19 of which have audio you can play here.
7 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain ㅢ — 5% of the bar the most common letter would fill.
| Name | 의 |
|---|---|
| Sound | /ɰi/ |
| Romanized | ui |
| Hear it | Recorded by a native Korean speaker |
ㅢ in the syllable chart
19 of 19 cells have audio — 5 with their own recording, 14 borrowing one from an identically pronounced syllable. 0 have none yet.
Where the reading differs from the spelling
- 긔 is read [기] and romanized gui.
- 끠 is read [끼] and romanized kkui.
- 늬 is read [니] and romanized nui.
- 듸 is read [디] and romanized dui.
- 띄 is read [띠] and romanized ttui.
- 릐 is read [리] and romanized rui.
- 믜 is read [미] and romanized mui.
- 븨 is read [비] and romanized bui.
- 쁴 is read [삐] and romanized ppui.
- 싀 is read [시] and romanized sui.
- 씌 is read [씨] and romanized ssui.
- 즤 is read [지] and romanized jui.
- 쯰 is read [찌] and romanized jjui.
- 츼 is read [치] and romanized chui.
- 킈 is read [키] and romanized kui.
- 틔 is read [티] and romanized tui.
- 픠 is read [피] and romanized pui.
- 희 is read [히] and romanized hui.
See the articles that decide this.
Words that use ㅢ
무늬
pattern
띄어쓰기
word spacing
의사
doctor
의자
chair
희다
to be white
- 예의courtesy
- 회의meeting
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce ㅢ? +
- ㅢ is /ɰi/. In English terms it is the ㅡ sound gliding straight into ㅣ. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
- How many strokes does ㅢ have? +
- 2. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.
- Why is 긔 not read the way it is written? +
- 긔 is pronounced [기]. 18 of the cells in this set read differently from how they are written. The rules page quotes the article that decides it.
- Why do some ㅢ cells play a different syllable? +
- 14 of them do. The standard defines those syllables as having the same pronunciation as another one, so rather than play nothing the cell plays that syllable's recording. Each cell names which one it borrows.