How do you pronounce 빠?

빠 is romanized ppa and read exactly as written.

빠

빠 — ppa

빠 is ㅃ plus ㅏ, romanized ppa 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

ㅃ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅃ (ssangbieup)

/p͈/

a tense, unaspirated p — like the p in spy

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 빠

아빠
dad

오빠older brother (of a female)
바빠요busy

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅃ)

Same vowel (ㅏ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 빠?: 빠 is romanized ppa and read exactly as written.