How do you pronounce 포?

포 is romanized po and read exactly as written.

포

포 — po

포 is ㅍ plus ㅗ, romanized po 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

ㅍ + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅍ (pieup)

/pʰ/

the p in pot, with a strong puff of air

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 포

소포
package
포도
grape

대포cannon
포로prisoner

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅍ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 포?: 포 is romanized po and read exactly as written.