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.

How this block is put together

ㅂ + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

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

바보
fool

계보genealogy
구보trot
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.