루 — ru
루 is ㄹ plus ㅜ, romanized ru 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.
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 루
- 가루powder
- 루비ruby
- 마루floor
- 하루one day
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Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 루? +
- 루 is romanized ru and read exactly as written.