자 — ja
자 is ㅈ plus ㅏ, romanized ja 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
Words containing 자
- 자ruler
- 과자snack
- 모자hat
- 비자visa
- 사자lion
- 상자box
Syllables that sound the same
The standard gives these the same reading as 자, even though they are spelled differently.
- 쟈ja
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 자? +
- 자 is romanized ja and read exactly as written.