How do you pronounce 죄?

죄 is read [죄/줴], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized joe.

죄

죄 — joe

pronounced [죄/줴]

죄 is written with ㅈ and ㅚ, but the standard reads it [죄/줴] — not the way it is spelled. It is romanized joe. 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 rules that decide this

Standard Korean Pronunciation, Article 4, Note

[Note] ㅚ and ㅟ may also be pronounced as diphthongs.

[붙임] 'ㅚ, ㅟ'는 이중 모음으로 발음할 수 있다.

Gives every ㅚ syllable a second, permitted reading — 괴 is [괴] or [궤].

All the rules this site follows

The two letters

ㅈ (jieut)

/tɕ/, [dʑ] between voiced sounds

between the j in jar and the ch in itch

ㅚ

/ø/, also pronounced [we]

the German ö; the standard also allows the we of wet

Words containing 죄

죄송해요sorry

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅈ)

Same vowel (ㅚ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 죄?: 죄 is read [죄/줴], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized joe.