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Korean vowel · /y/, also pronounced [wi]

is /y/, also pronounced [wi]the French u in tu; the standard also allows the wee of week. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 4 of which have audio you can play here. 10 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain it.

Stroke order — 3 strokes
Name
Sound/y/, also pronounced [wi]
Romanizedwi
Hear itRecorded by a native Korean speaker

in the syllable chart

4 cells have their own recording, 0 borrow one from an identically pronounced syllable, and 15 have none yet.

gwi
kkwi
nwi
dwi
ttwi
rwi
mwi
bwi
ppwi
swi
sswi
wi
jwi
jjwi
chwi
kwi
twi
pwi
hwi

Words that use

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce ㅟ?
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ㅟ is /y/, also pronounced [wi]. In English terms it is the French u in tu; the standard also allows the wee of week. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
How many strokes does ㅟ have?
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3. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.