여 — yeo
여 is ㅇ plus ㅕ, romanized yeo 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
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 여
- 여권passport
- 여기here
- 여름summer
- 여자woman
- 여행travel
- 여동생younger sister
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 여? +
- 여 is romanized yeo and read exactly as written.