Hangul · vowel · 23 of 40
ㅡ 으
- Name
- 으 eu
- Sound
- eu, as in 으
- How it sounds
- An oo made with the lips spread flat, as if smiling, with no rounding at all. English has nothing quite like it; the vowel of 'good' said through a grin is close.
- Memory hook
- A single flat line, the ground in the original design, and the lips go flat to match.
- Watch for
- Rounding the lips so that it becomes ㅜ, or skipping it in loanwords such as 스키 (seuki), where it fills the gap between consonants.
Words that use ㅡ
Romanisation help
그림
geurim
picture
크다
keuda
to be big
음악
eumak
music
How to write ㅡ
Stroke order · 1 stroke
1
- 1. One long horizontal, from left to right.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes are written left to right, vertical ones top to bottom.
- Many corners are turned without lifting the pen, so ㄱ and ㄴ are each a single stroke.
- ㅇ is drawn anticlockwise, starting from the top.
- Vowels follow the same order: ㅏ and ㅜ start with the long line, while ㅓ and ㅗ start with the short stroke.
- In a block, write the consonant first, then the vowel, then any final consonant.
Practise it with a tracing guide and a from-memory pass on the writing practice page.
ㅡ is taught on day 1 of the Hangul course, alongside ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅣ ㅇ, with a memory hook, words to read and two writing passes.