Syllable Rhymes
Syllable rhymes (i.e. vowels and any consonants that may follow them within the same syllable) are indicated in Burmese by a combination of diacritic marks and consonant letters marked with the virama character ် which suppresses the inherent vowel of the consonant letter. This mark is called Asat in Burmese (Burmese: အသတ်; MLCTS: a.sat, ), which means nonexistence (see Sat (Sanskrit)).
| Symbol | IPA | MLCTS | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| က | , | ka. | is the inherent vowel, and is not indicated by any diacritic. In theory, virtually any written syllable that is not the final syllable of a word can be pronounced with the vowel (with no tone and no syllable-final or ) as its rhyme. In practice, the bare consonant letter alone is the most common way of spelling syllables whose rhyme is . |
| ကာ | ka | Takes the alternative form ါ (called ဝိုက်ချ) with certain consonants, e.g. ဂါ (called ဝိုက်ချ) ga . | |
| ကား | ka: | Takes the alternative form ါး with certain consonants, e.g. ဂါး (called ဝိုက်ချ) ga: . | |
| ကက် | kak | ||
| ကင် | kang | ||
| ကင့် | kang. | ||
| ကင်း | kang: | ||
| ကစ် | kac | ||
| ကည် | , | kany | |
| ကဉ် | |||
| ကည့် | , | kany. | |
| ကဉ့် | |||
| ကည်း | , | kany: | |
| ကဉ်း | |||
| ကတ် | kat | ||
| ကန် | kan | ||
| ကန့် | kan. | ||
| ကန်း | kan: | ||
| ကပ် | kap | ||
| ကမ် | kam | ||
| ကမ့် | kam. | ||
| ကမ်း | kam: | ||
| ကယ် | kai | ||
| ကံ | kam | ||
| ကံ့ | kam. | ||
| ကံး | kam: | ||
| ကိ | ki. | As an open vowel, is represented by ဣ. | |
| ကိတ် | kit | ||
| ကိန် | kin | ||
| ကိန့် | kin. | ||
| ကိန်း | kin: | ||
| ကိပ် | kip | ||
| ကိမ် | kim | ||
| ကိမ့် | kim. | ||
| ကိမ်း | kim: | ||
| ကိံ | kim | ||
| ကိံ့ | kim. | ||
| ကိံး | kim: | ||
| ကီ | ki | As an open vowel, is represented by ဤ. | |
| ကီး | ki: | ||
| ကု | ku. | As an open vowel, is represented by ဥ. | |
| ကုတ် | kut | ||
| ကုန် | kun | ||
| ကုန့် | kun. | ||
| ကုန်း | kun: | ||
| ကုပ် | kup | ||
| ကုမ် | kum | ||
| ကုမ့် | kum. | ||
| ကုမ်း | kum: | ||
| ကုံ | kum | ||
| ကုံ့ | kum. | ||
| ကုံး | kum: | ||
| ကူ | ku | As an open vowel, is represented by ဦ. | |
| ကူး | ku: | As an open vowel, is represented by ဦး. | |
| ကေ | ke | As an open vowel, is represented by ဧ. | |
| ကေ့ | ke. | ||
| ကေး | ke: | As an open vowel, is represented by ဧး. | |
| ကဲ | kai: | ||
| ကဲ့ | kai. | ||
| ကော | kau: | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါ (called ဝိုက်ချ) gau: . As an open vowel, is represented by ဩ. | |
| ကောက် | kauk | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါက် (called ဝိုက်ချ) gauk . | |
| ကောင် | kaung | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါင် (called ဝိုက်ချ) gaung . | |
| ကောင့် | kaung. | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါင့် (called ဝိုက်ချ) gaung. . | |
| ကောင်း | kaung: | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါင်း (called ဝိုက်ချ) gaung: . | |
| ကော့ | kau. | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါ့ (called ဝိုက်ချ) gau. . | |
| ကော် | kau | Takes an alternative long form with certain consonants, e.g. ဂေါ် (called ဝိုက်ချ) gau . As an open vowel, is represented by ဪ. | |
| ကို | kui | ||
| ကိုက် | kuik | ||
| ကိုင် | kuing | ||
| ကိုင့် | kuing. | ||
| ကိုင်း | kuing: | ||
| ကို့ | kui. | ||
| ကိုး | kui: | ||
| ကွတ် | kwat | ||
| ကွန် | kwan | ||
| ကွန့် | kwan. | ||
| ကွန်း | kwan: | ||
| ကွပ် | kwap | ||
| ကွမ် | kwam | ||
| ကွမ့် | kwam. | ||
| ကွမ်း | kwam: |
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