KoreanRead
라

라 — ra

라 is ㄹ plus ㅏ, romanized ra 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

ㄹㅏ=라
ㄹ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㄹ (rieul)

/ɾ/ before a vowel, [l] in final position

the tapped r of Spanish pero when a vowel follows; an l at the end of a syllable

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 라

  • 나라 — country

    나라

    country

  • 라디오 — radio

    라디오

    radio

  • 몰라요don't know
  • 빨라요fast
  • 오로라aurora

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄹ)

Same vowel (ㅏ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 라?
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라 is romanized ra and read exactly as written.