How do you pronounce 처?

처 is romanized cheo and read exactly as written.

처

처 — cheo

처 is ㅊ plus ㅓ, romanized cheo and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Frequency: less common — it appears, but below the median frequency. 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 + ㅓ — 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

ㅓ

/ʌ/

the u in but

Words containing 처

미처not yet
부처Buddha

Syllables that sound the same

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

쳐cheo

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅊ)

Same vowel (ㅓ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 처?: 처 is romanized cheo and read exactly as written.