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ㅘ

Korean vowel · /wa/

ㅘ is /wa/ — the wa in wand. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 1 of which have audio you can play here.

17 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain ㅘ — 12% of the bar the most common letter would fill.

Stroke order — 4 strokes. The numbers mark where each stroke starts.
Name와
Sound/wa/
Romanizedwa
Hear itRecorded by a native Korean speaker

ㅘ in the syllable chart

1 of 19 cells have audio — 1 with their own recording, 0 borrowing one from an identically pronounced syllable. 18 have none yet.

과gwa
꽈kkwa
놔nwa
돠dwa
똬ttwa
롸rwa
뫄mwa
봐bwa
뽜ppwa
솨swa
쏴sswa
와wa
좌jwa
쫘jjwa
촤chwa
콰kwa
톼twa
퐈pwa
화hwa

Words that use ㅘ

  • 과일 — fruit

    과일

    fruit

  • 과자 — snack

    과자

    snack

  • 결과result
  • 과묵taciturn
  • 과정process
  • 과학자scientist
  • 봐요watch
  • 와요come

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce ㅘ?
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ㅘ is /wa/. In English terms it is the wa in wand. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
How many strokes does ㅘ have?
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4. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.