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ssi

is plus , romanized ssi 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

(ssangsiot)

/s͈/

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

/i/

the ee in see

Words containing

Syllables that sound the same

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

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant ()

Same vowel ()

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 씨?
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씨 is romanized ssi and read exactly as written.