How do you pronounce 거?

거 is romanized geo and read exactly as written.

거

거 — geo

거 is ㄱ plus ㅓ, romanized geo 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 + ㅓ — 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

ㅓ

/ʌ/

the u in but

Words containing 거

거기there near you
거부refusal
자전거bicycle

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄱ)

Same vowel (ㅓ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 거?: 거 is romanized geo and read exactly as written.