How do you pronounce 쓰?

쓰 is romanized sseu and read exactly as written.

쓰

쓰 — sseu

쓰 is ㅆ plus ㅡ, romanized sseu 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

ㅆ + ㅡ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅆ (ssangsiot)

/s͈/

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

ㅡ

/ɯ/

no close English match — the oo of moon with lips spread flat

Words containing 쓰

띄어쓰기
word spacing

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅆ)

Same vowel (ㅡ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 쓰?: 쓰 is romanized sseu and read exactly as written.