How do you pronounce 키?

키 is romanized ki and read exactly as written.

키

키 — ki

키 is ㅋ plus ㅣ, romanized ki 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

ㅋ + ㅣ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅋ (kieuk)

/kʰ/

the k in kite, with a strong puff of air

ㅣ

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing 키

쿠키
cookie

키height
터키Turkey

Syllables that sound the same

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

킈kui

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅋ)

Same vowel (ㅣ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 키?: 키 is romanized ki and read exactly as written.