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.

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

돼지pig
바지pants
지갑wallet
지구Earth
지금now
지도map

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.