How do you pronounce 조?

조 is romanized jo and read exactly as written.

조

조 — jo

조 is ㅈ plus ㅗ, romanized jo 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 + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅈ (jieut)

/tɕ/, [dʑ] between voiced sounds

between the j in jar and the ch in itch

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 조

타조ostrich
조심히carefully

Syllables that sound the same

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

죠jo

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅈ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 조?: 조 is romanized jo and read exactly as written.