How do you pronounce 개?

개 is romanized gae and read exactly as written.

개

개 — gae

개 is ㄱ plus ㅐ, romanized gae 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

ㄱ (giyeok)

/k/, [ɡ] between voiced sounds

between the g in go and the k in skin

ㅐ

/ɛ/

the e in bed — more open than ㅔ

Words containing 개

개dog
소개introduction
네 개four items
두 개two items
몇 개how many items
세 개three items

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄱ)

Same vowel (ㅐ)

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How do you pronounce 개?: 개 is romanized gae and read exactly as written.