How do you pronounce 비?

비 is romanized bi and read exactly as written.

비

비 — bi

비 is ㅂ plus ㅣ, romanized bi 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

ㅣ

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing 비

비rain
나비butterfly
냄비pot
루비ruby
마비paralysis
미비deficiency

Syllables that sound the same

The standard gives these the same reading as 비, even though they are spelled differently.

븨bui

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅂ)

Same vowel (ㅣ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 비?: 비 is romanized bi and read exactly as written.