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Low class consonant · letter 37 of 44

ว wo waen

ว (wo waen) is a low-class consonant named after แหวน, “ring”. At the start of a syllable it is /w/, written w in RTGS; at the end of one it is /w/ (o).

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วว แหวนwo waen · ring
Thai name
ว แหวน · wo waen
Name word
แหวน, ring
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/w/ · RTGS w
At the end of a syllable
/w/ · RTGS o
Unicode
U+0E27 · THAI CHARACTER WO WAEN
In HTML
ว or ว
Kedmanee key
;
Pattachote key
O

How it sounds

A w at the start of a syllable. It is also part of vowels: between two consonants it writes ua (สวน suan, garden), and after a vowel it closes a diphthong (ยาว yao), which RTGS writes with o.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ว and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)วาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelวะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelวากFalling
Mai ekว่าFalling
Mai thoว้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ว

ThaiRTGSMeaning
วัดwattemple
วันwanday
เวลาwelatime
ว่ายwaito swim
ยาวyaolong

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ว in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.