How do you pronounce 서?

서 is romanized seo and read exactly as written.

서

서 — seo

서 is ㅅ plus ㅓ, romanized seo 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

ㅅ + ㅓ — 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

ㅓ

/ʌ/

the u in but

Words containing 서

비서
secretary

서른thirty
피서summer vacation
경찰서police station
그래서so
도서관library

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅅ)

Same vowel (ㅓ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 서?: 서 is romanized seo and read exactly as written.