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제

제 — je

제 is ㅈ plus ㅔ, romanized je 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

ㅈㅔ=제
ㅈ + ㅔ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅈ (jieut)

/tɕ/, [dʑ] between voiced sounds

between the j in jar and the ch in itch

ㅔ

/e/

the e in bet — closer than ㅐ

Words containing 제

  • 세제 — detergent

    세제

    detergent

  • 제my
  • 어제yesterday
  • 언제when
  • 제비swallow
  • 제사memorial rite

Syllables that sound the same

The standard gives these the same reading as 제, even though they are spelled differently.

Nearby in the chart

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 제?
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제 is romanized je and read exactly as written.