How do you pronounce 수?

수 is romanized su and read exactly as written.

수

수 — su

수 is ㅅ plus ㅜ, romanized su 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

ㅅ + ㅜ — the vowel sits underneath the consonant.

The two letters

ㅅ (siot)

/s/, [ɕ] before i and y-vowels

the s in sea; closer to sh before ㅣ and ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ

ㅜ

/u/

the oo in moon

Words containing 수

가수
singer
수영
swimming
수영장
swimming pool

수술surgery
수학mathematics
호수lake

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅅ)

Same vowel (ㅜ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 수?: 수 is romanized su and read exactly as written.