How do you pronounce 쐬?

쐬 is read [쐬/쒜], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized ssoe.

Is 쐬 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.

쐬

쐬 — ssoe

pronounced [쐬/쒜]

쐬 is written with ㅆ and ㅚ, but the standard reads it [쐬/쒜] — not the way it is spelled. It is romanized ssoe. There is no recording for this syllable yet.

Frequency: rare — it does not appear in the teaching material at all. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.

The rules that decide this

Standard Korean Pronunciation, Article 4, Note

[Note] ㅚ and ㅟ may also be pronounced as diphthongs.

[붙임] 'ㅚ, ㅟ'는 이중 모음으로 발음할 수 있다.

Gives every ㅚ syllable a second, permitted reading — 괴 is [괴] or [궤].

All the rules this site follows

How this block is put together

ㅆ + ㅚ — the vowel wraps around the consonant, right and below.

The two letters

ㅆ (ssangsiot)

/s͈/

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

ㅚ

/ø/, also pronounced [we]

the German ö; the standard also allows the we of wet

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅆ)

Same vowel (ㅚ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 쐬?: 쐬 is read [쐬/쒜], not the way it is spelled. It is romanized ssoe.
Is 쐬 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.