How do you pronounce 시?

시 is romanized si and read exactly as written.

시

시 — si

시 is ㅅ plus ㅣ, romanized si 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 + ㅣ — 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

ㅣ

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing 시

도시
city
시계
clock

다시once more
시간time
시내downtown
시작start

Syllables that sound the same

The standard gives these the same reading as 시, even though they are spelled differently.

싀sui

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅅ)

Same vowel (ㅣ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 시?: 시 is romanized si and read exactly as written.