How do you pronounce 보?

보 is romanized bo and read exactly as written.

보

보 — bo

보 is ㅂ plus ㅗ, romanized bo 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

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 보

계보genealogy
구보trot
바보fool
보모nanny
보배treasure
오보false report

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅂ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 보?: 보 is romanized bo and read exactly as written.