ㅜ
Korean vowel · /u/
ㅜ is /u/ — the oo in moon. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 19 of which have audio you can play here. 82 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain it.
| Name | 우 |
|---|---|
| Sound | /u/ |
| Romanized | u |
| Hear it | Recorded by a native Korean speaker |
ㅜ in the syllable chart
19 cells have their own recording, 0 borrow one from an identically pronounced syllable, and 0 have none yet.
Letters it gets confused with
ㅡ · ㅜ
Both are high back vowels, but ㅜ is rounded and ㅡ is not. For ㅡ, say the oo of moon and then spread your lips flat.
Words that use ㅜ
- 구두dress shoes
- 구보trot
- 구입purchase
- 누구who
- 도구tool
- 입구entrance
- 누나older sister (of a male)
- 비누soap
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce ㅜ? +
- ㅜ is /u/. In English terms it is the oo in moon. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
- How many strokes does ㅜ have? +
- 2. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.