Romanisation: wi

on; above; top

Example sentence

고양이가 의자 위에 있어요.

goyangiga uija wie isseoyo.

The cat is on the chair.

What 위 means

(wi) is an Korean word meaning “on; above; top”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.

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