How do you pronounce 세?

세 is romanized se and read exactly as written.

세

세 — se

세 is ㅅ plus ㅔ, romanized se 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

ㅅ (siot)

/s/, [ɕ] before i and y-vowels

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

ㅔ

/e/

the e in bet — closer than ㅐ

Words containing 세

세모triangle
세제detergent
세차car wash
가세요go
계세요stay
드세요dine

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅅ)

Same vowel (ㅔ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 세?: 세 is romanized se and read exactly as written.