How do you pronounce 회?

회 is read [회/훼], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized hoe.

회

회 — hoe

pronounced [회/훼]

회 is written with ㅎ and ㅚ, but the standard reads it [회/훼] — not the way it is spelled. It is romanized hoe. 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 rules that decide this

Standard Korean Pronunciation, Article 4, Note

[Note] ㅚ and ㅟ may also be pronounced as diphthongs.

[붙임] 'ㅚ, ㅟ'는 이중 모음으로 발음할 수 있다.

Gives every ㅚ syllable a second, permitted reading — 괴 is [괴] or [궤].

All the rules this site follows

How this block is put together

ㅎ + ㅚ — the vowel wraps around the consonant, right and below.

The two letters

ㅎ (hieut)

/h/

the h in hat

ㅚ

/ø/, also pronounced [we]

the German ö; the standard also allows the we of wet

Words containing 회

회
raw fish

회계accounting
회비membership fee
회사company; office
회의meeting
회사원office worker

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅎ)

Same vowel (ㅚ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 회?: 회 is read [회/훼], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized hoe.