How do you pronounce 오?

오 is romanized o and read exactly as written.

오

오 — o

오 is ㅇ plus ㅗ, romanized o 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

ㅇ + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅇ (ieung)

silent before a vowel, /ŋ/ in final position

no sound at the start of a syllable; the ng in sing at the end

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 오

오
five
오리
duck

오늘today
오래long time
오보false report
오빠older brother (of a female)

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅇ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 오?: 오 is romanized o and read exactly as written.