How do you pronounce 의?

의 is romanized ui and read exactly as written.

의

의 — ui

의 is ㅇ plus ㅢ, romanized ui 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

ㅇ + ㅢ — the vowel wraps around the consonant, right and below.

The two letters

ㅇ (ieung)

silent before a vowel, /ŋ/ in final position

no sound at the start of a syllable; the ng in sing at the end

ㅢ

/ɰi/

the ㅡ sound gliding straight into ㅣ

Words containing 의

의사
doctor
의자
chair

예의courtesy
회의meeting

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㅇ)

Same vowel (ㅢ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 의?: 의 is romanized ui and read exactly as written.