How do you pronounce 쎄?

쎄 is romanized sse and read exactly as written.

Is 쎄 used in real Korean words?

Not in the beginner vocabulary behind this site. It is still a legal syllable, and once you know the two letters it is made of you can read it on sight.

쎄

쎄 — sse

쎄 is ㅆ plus ㅔ, romanized sse and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Frequency: less common — it appears, but below the median frequency. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.

The two letters

ㅆ (ssangsiot)

/s͈/

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

ㅔ

/e/

the e in bet — closer than ㅐ

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅆ)

Same vowel (ㅔ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 쎄?: 쎄 is romanized sse and read exactly as written.
Is 쎄 used in real Korean words?: Not in the beginner vocabulary behind this site. It is still a legal syllable, and once you know the two letters it is made of you can read it on sight.