How do you pronounce 기?

기 is romanized gi and read exactly as written.

기

기 — gi

기 is ㄱ plus ㅣ, romanized gi 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

ㅣ

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing 기

거기there near you
고기meat
기대expectation
기도prayer
기차train
기타guitar

Syllables that sound the same

The standard gives these the same reading as 기, even though they are spelled differently.

긔gui

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄱ)

Same vowel (ㅣ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 기?: 기 is romanized gi and read exactly as written.