Wae (hangul)

ㅙ (wae) is one of the Korean hangul. This compound vowel is ㅗ + ㅐ. To pronounce this vowel, shape your mouth to make the ㅗ sound. Then start to say the ㅗ sound and while quickly saying the ㅐ sound. The resulting sound is ㅙ (wae) as in ‘wedding’.^[1]

wae
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanization	wae
McCune–Reischauer	wae

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	ㅙ		ᅫ
Unicode name	HANGUL LETTER WAE		HANGUL JUNGSEONG WAE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12633	U+3159	4459	U+116B
UTF-8	227 133 153	E3 85 99	225 133 171	E1 85 AB
Numeric character reference	ㅙ	ㅙ	ᅫ	ᅫ