How do you pronounce 소?

소 is romanized so and read exactly as written.

소

소 — so

소 is ㅅ plus ㅗ, romanized so 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

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Words containing 소

미소smile
소개introduction
소설novel
소주soju
소파sofa
소포package

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅅ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 소?: 소 is romanized so and read exactly as written.