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ㅓ

Korean vowel · /ʌ/

ㅓ is /ʌ/ — the u in but. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 19 of which have audio you can play here.

54 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain ㅓ — 38% of the bar the most common letter would fill.

Stroke order — 2 strokes. The numbers mark where each stroke starts.
Name어
Sound/ʌ/
Romanizedeo
Hear itRecorded by a native Korean speaker

ㅓ in the syllable chart

19 of 19 cells have audio — 19 with their own recording, 0 borrowing one from an identically pronounced syllable. 0 have none yet.

거geo
꺼kkeo
너neo
더deo
떠tteo
러reo
머meo
버beo
뻐ppeo
서seo
써sseo
어eo
저jeo
쩌jjeo
처cheo
커keo
터teo
퍼peo
허heo

Letters it gets confused with

ㅓ is unrounded [ʌ], like the u in but. ㅗ is rounded [o]. English speakers often merge them because both can sound like an o to an untrained ear.

Words that use ㅓ

  • 거기there near you
  • 거부refusal
  • 자전거bicycle
  • 너무too much
  • 더위heat
  • 두더지mole
  • 그러면then
  • 어머니mother

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce ㅓ?
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ㅓ is /ʌ/. In English terms it is the u in but. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
How many strokes does ㅓ have?
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2. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.