How do you pronounce 아?

아 is romanized a and read exactly as written.

아

아 — a

아 is ㅇ plus ㅏ, romanized a and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Frequency: common — it appears at or above the median frequency in the teaching material behind this site. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.

How this block is put together

ㅇ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅇ (ieung)

silent before a vowel, /ŋ/ in final position

no sound at the start of a syllable; the ng in sing at the end

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 아

아기
baby

모아gather
미아lost child
아내wife
아들son
아마probably

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅇ)

Same vowel (ㅏ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 아?: 아 is romanized a and read exactly as written.