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게

게 — ge

게 is ㄱ plus ㅔ, romanized ge 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

ㄱㅔ=게
ㄱ + ㅔ — 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

ㅔ

/e/

the e in bet — closer than ㅐ

Words containing 게

  • 게 — crab

    게

    crab

  • 어떻게how

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Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 게?
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게 is romanized ge and read exactly as written.