How do you pronounce 대?

대 is romanized dae and read exactly as written.

대

대 — dae

대 is ㄷ plus ㅐ, romanized dae 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

ㄷ (digeut)

/t/, [d] between voiced sounds

between the d in do and the t in stop

ㅐ

/ɛ/

the e in bed — more open than ㅔ

Words containing 대

기대expectation
대답reply
대파leek
대포cannon
대학university
대화conversation

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄷ)

Same vowel (ㅐ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 대?: 대 is romanized dae and read exactly as written.