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.

How this block is put together

ㅂ + ㅣ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

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

비
rain
나비
butterfly
냄비
pot
루비
ruby

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.