How do you pronounce 고?

고 is romanized go and read exactly as written.

고

고 — go

고 is ㄱ plus ㅗ, romanized go 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 + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㄱ (giyeok)

/k/, [ɡ] between voiced sounds

between the g in go and the k in skin

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 고

고기meat
고도altitude
고모aunt (father's sister)
고부in-law relationship
고삐bridle
피고defendant

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄱ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 고?: 고 is romanized go and read exactly as written.