How do you pronounce 지?

지 is romanized ji and read exactly as written.

지

지 — ji

지 is ㅈ plus ㅣ, romanized ji 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

ㅈ + ㅣ — 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

ㅣ

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing 지

돼지
pig
바지
pants
지갑
wallet
지도
map

지구Earth
지금now

Syllables that sound the same

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

즤jui

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅈ)

Same vowel (ㅣ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 지?: 지 is romanized ji and read exactly as written.