짜 — jja
짜 is ㅉ plus ㅏ, romanized jja and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.
Frequency: less common — it appears, but below the median frequency. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.
The two letters
Syllables that sound the same
The standard gives these the same reading as 짜, even though they are spelled differently.
- 쨔jja
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Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 짜? +
- 짜 is romanized jja and read exactly as written.
- Is 짜 used in real Korean words? +
- Not in the beginner vocabulary behind this site. It is still a legal syllable, and once you know the two letters it is made of you can read it on sight.