How do you pronounce 차?

차 is romanized cha and read exactly as written.

차

차 — cha

차 is ㅊ plus ㅏ, romanized cha 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

ㅊ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅊ (chieut)

/tɕʰ/

the ch in cheese, with a strong puff of air

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 차

차
tea
기차
train
세차
car wash

주차parking
차도roadway
차례turn

Syllables that sound the same

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

챠cha

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅊ)

Same vowel (ㅏ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 차?: 차 is romanized cha and read exactly as written.