How do you pronounce 프?

프 is romanized peu and read exactly as written.

Is 프 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.

프

프 — peu

프 is ㅍ plus ㅡ, romanized peu 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

ㅍ + ㅡ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅍ (pieup)

/pʰ/

the p in pot, with a strong puff of air

ㅡ

/ɯ/

no close English match — the oo of moon with lips spread flat

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅍ)

Same vowel (ㅡ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 프?: 프 is romanized peu and read exactly as written.
Is 프 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.