ื — sara uee
«sara uee» is a vowel of the Thai script, read as “long ue (above)”. The long partner of sara ue; it coils into a spiral above the consonant. For example, in the word “มืด” — dark. The Thai alphabet has 63 letters in total. On a carrier the character looks like this: อือ. It appears, for example, in the word “ผม ชื่อ” — my name is.
In short
| Character | ื |
| Name | sara uee |
| Sound | long ue (above) |
| What it is | a vowel |
| On the carrier | อือ |
In our course the character comes 56th of 67: the order here is not alphabetical but from familiar to unfamiliar, its neighbours in the course are ึ and ุ, appears in 333 words of this site.
How to type ื
- On a phone: add the Thai keyboard in the keyboard settings (Gboard on Android; Keyboards in the iPhone settings).
- In Word on Windows: type U+0E37 and press Alt+X right after it — the code turns into the character.
- On a Mac: switch to the Unicode Hex Input source, hold Option and type 0E37.
- Type this sign after its base letter, even where it is drawn before it: letter first, then the sign, and they join.
- Unicode code point: U+0E37. With it, the character can be found in the character map of any system.
How it sounds
The long partner of sara ue; it coils into a spiral above the consonant
The character in a word
A lone character is hard to remember: memory holds on to meaning, and a letter has none. The word it stands in provides that anchor.
- มืดмытdark
The character in the “vowel marks around the letter” group
Shown on the carrier อ, as in a Thai classroom: by itself a vowel mark is not readable. Short and long pairs (ะ/า, ิ/ี, ึ/ื, ุ/ู) carry meaning as firmly as ship and sheep. They also decide whether the syllable is live. A short vowel with nothing after it makes the syllable dead, and that changes the tone.
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound (for «sara uee» it is “long ue (above)”, as in the word “มืด”), see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 63 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Thai character ื read?
As “long ue (above)” — it is a vowel of the Thai script. The long partner of sara ue; it coils into a spiral above the consonant. For example, in the word “มืด” — dark.
What is the sign ื called?
Sara uee. A character's name and its sound are different things in the Thai script: it is called “sara uee” and reads as “long ue (above)”. Learn the second one: the name only helps when the alphabet is recited aloud.