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싸

싸 — ssa

싸 is ㅆ plus ㅏ, romanized ssa 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

ㅆㅏ=싸
ㅆ + ㅏ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㅆ (ssangsiot)

/s͈/

a tense, sharper s — the hiss is longer and the throat tighter

ㅏ

/a/

the a in father

Words containing 싸

  • 싸요cheap
  • 비싸요expensive

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅆ)

Same vowel (ㅏ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 싸?
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싸 is romanized ssa and read exactly as written.