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.

How this block is put together

ㄱ + ㅐ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

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

개
dog

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

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄱ)

Same vowel (ㅐ)

Questions people ask

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