How do you pronounce 두?

두 is romanized du and read exactly as written.

두

두 — du

두 is ㄷ plus ㅜ, romanized du 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

ㅜ

/u/

the oo in moon

Words containing 두

구두dress shoes
두부tofu
두 개two items
두 명two people
두 시two o’clock
두더지mole

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄷ)

Same vowel (ㅜ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 두?: 두 is romanized du and read exactly as written.