How do you pronounce 초?

초 is romanized cho and read exactly as written.

Is 초 used in real Korean words?

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.

초

초 — cho

초 is ㅊ plus ㅗ, romanized cho 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

ㅊ (chieut)

/tɕʰ/

the ch in cheese, with a strong puff of air

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Syllables that sound the same

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

쵸cho

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅊ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 초?: 초 is romanized cho and read exactly as written.
Is 초 used in real Korean words?: 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.