KoreanRead

chi

is plus , romanized chi 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.

The two letters

(chieut)

/tɕʰ/

the ch in cheese, with a strong puff of air

/i/

the ee in see

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Syllables that sound the same

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

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How do you pronounce 치?
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치 is romanized chi and read exactly as written.