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.

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

가수singer
수술surgery
수영swimming
수학mathematics
호수lake
수영장swimming pool

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.