이 — i
이 is ㅇ plus ㅣ, romanized i 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
ㅇ (ieung)
silent before a vowel, /ŋ/ in final position
no sound at the start of a syllable; the ng in sing at the end
Words containing 이
- 이two
- 같이together
- 나이age
- 모이bird feed
- 아이child
- 오이cucumber
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 이? +
- 이 is romanized i and read exactly as written.