The leftovers — and some of the most common syllables in Thai. Four of them secretly contain their own ending sound: ◌ำ ends in m, ใ◌ and ไ◌ end in y, เ◌า ends in w — so syllables built on them count as 'livei' for the tone rules. ใ◌ and ไ◌ sound identical; only 20 words use ใ◌ (all others use ไ◌). The three gliding vowels (เ◌ีย, เ◌ือ, ◌ัว) slide from one vowel into another. ฤ is a rare consonant-vowel hybrid you'll mostly meet in ฤดู (season).
Vowel names all start with sara (สระ — “vowel”). Tap a card to hear the name, or the pill to hear a real word that uses it. Where a card shows more than one form, separated by slashes, the extra forms are how that vowel is written when a final consonant follows — the sound is exactly the same.