워 — wo
워 is ㅇ plus ㅝ, romanized wo 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
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
Words containing 워
- 매워요spicy
- 배워요learn
- 쉬워요easy
- 가까워요close
- 반가워요glad to see you
- 어려워요difficult
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 워? +
- 워 is romanized wo and read exactly as written.