KoreanRead

che

is plus , romanized che 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

(chieut)

/tɕʰ/

the ch in cheese, with a strong puff of air

/e/

the e in bet — closer than ㅐ

Syllables that sound the same

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

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Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 체?
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체 is romanized che and read exactly as written.
Is 체 used in real Korean words?
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Not in the beginner vocabulary behind this site. It is still a legal syllable, and once you know the two letters it is made of you can read it on sight.