How do you pronounce 쩌?

쩌 is romanized jjeo and read exactly as written.

Is 쩌 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.

쩌

쩌 — jjeo

쩌 is ㅉ plus ㅓ, romanized jjeo 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.

How this block is put together

ㅉ + ㅓ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅉ (ssangjieut)

/t͈ɕ/

a tense, unaspirated j — sharp and clipped

ㅓ

/ʌ/

the u in but

Syllables that sound the same

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

쪄jjeo

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅉ)

Same vowel (ㅓ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 쩌?: 쩌 is romanized jjeo and read exactly as written.
Is 쩌 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.