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Y vowels and combined vowels

Add one more short stroke to a basic vowel and you get a y sound: ㅏ (a) becomes ㅑ (ya).

Put two vowels together and they glide into one sound: ㅗ + ㅏ = ㅘ (wa). The rarer ones (ㅒ ㅙ ㅞ) are built the same way.

A combined vowel counts as one letter. When it has a flat part and a tall part, the consonant sits in the top left corner: ㄱ + ㅘ = 과, and ㄱ + ㅘ + ㄴ = 관.

Tap each letter to hear it

Read your first words

You already know every letter in these words. Try reading each one before you look at the romanization.

Quick quiz

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