How do you pronounce 배?

배 is romanized bae and read exactly as written.

배

배 — bae

배 is ㅂ plus ㅐ, romanized bae 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.

The two letters

ㅂ (bieup)

/p/, [b] between voiced sounds

between the b in boy and the p in spin

ㅐ

/ɛ/

the e in bed — more open than ㅔ

Words containing 배

배pear
도배wallpapering
배추cabbage
보배treasure
배워요learn
배고파요hungry

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅂ)

Same vowel (ㅐ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 배?: 배 is romanized bae and read exactly as written.