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사

사 — sa

사 is ㅅ plus ㅏ, romanized sa 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

ㅅㅏ=사
ㅅ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅅ (siot)

/s/, [ɕ] before i and y-vowels

the s in sea; closer to sh before ㅣ and ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 사

  • 사람 — person

    사람

    person

  • 사막 — desert

    사막

    desert

  • 사자 — lion

    사자

    lion

  • 의사 — doctor

    의사

    doctor

  • 사요buy
  • 사진photo

Nearby in the chart

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 사?
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사 is romanized sa and read exactly as written.