계 — gye
pronounced [계/게]
계 is written with ㄱ and ㅖ, but the standard reads it [계/게] — not the way it is spelled. It is romanized gye. The recording below is of 계, which the standard defines as the same sound.
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 rules that decide this
Standard Korean Pronunciation, Article 5, Proviso 2
Apart from 예 and 례, ㅖ may also be pronounced [ㅔ].
'예, 례' 이외의 'ㅖ'는 [ㅔ]로도 발음한다.
Gives 계, 폐 and the rest a second permitted reading — [계] or [게]. 예 and 례 are excluded and keep one reading.
All the rules this site follows
The two letters
Words containing 계
- 경계boundary
- 계단stairs
- 계보genealogy
- 계산payment
- 계약contract
- 계획plan
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 계? +
- 계 is read [계/게], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized gye.
- Why does 계 play the recording of 계? +
- Because the standard defines them as the same sound. Rather than leave the cell silent, it plays the 계 recording and says so.