리 — ri
리 is ㄹ plus ㅣ, romanized ri 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
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
Words containing 리
뿌리
root
오리
duck
- 권리rights
- 무리group
- 부리beak
- 요리cooking
Syllables that sound the same
The standard gives these the same reading as 리, even though they are spelled differently.
- 릐rui
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 리? +
- 리 is romanized ri and read exactly as written.