How do you pronounce 쏘?

쏘 is romanized sso and read exactly as written.

Is 쏘 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.

쏘

쏘 — sso

쏘 is ㅆ plus ㅗ, romanized sso 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.

How this block is put together

ㅆ + ㅗ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅆ (ssangsiot)

/s͈/

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

ㅗ

/o/

the o in more, with rounded lips and no glide

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅆ)

Same vowel (ㅗ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 쏘?: 쏘 is romanized sso and read exactly as written.
Is 쏘 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.