요 — yo
요 is ㅇ plus ㅛ, romanized yo 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 요
- 가요go
- 돼요is possible
- 봐요watch
- 사요buy
- 싸요cheap
- 와요come
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 요? +
- 요 is romanized yo and read exactly as written.