ㅠ
Korean vowel · /ju/
ㅠ is /ju/ — the you in you. It appears in 19 cells of the syllable chart, 4 of which have audio you can play here. 8 of the 568 words in the dictionary behind this site contain it.
| Name | 유 |
|---|---|
| Sound | /ju/ |
| Romanized | yu |
| Hear it | Recorded by a native Korean speaker |
ㅠ in the syllable chart
1 cells have their own recording, 3 borrow one from an identically pronounced syllable, and 15 have none yet.
Where the reading differs from the spelling
- 쥬 is read [주] and romanized ju.
- 쮸 is read [쭈] and romanized jju.
- 츄 is read [추] and romanized chu.
See the articles that decide this.
Words that use ㅠ
- 뉴스news
- 메뉴판menu
- 정류장bus stop
- 우유milk
- 유리glass
- 컴퓨터computer
- 휴가vacation
- 휴지tissue
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce ㅠ? +
- ㅠ is /ju/. In English terms it is the you in you. It never appears on its own in writing — it always sits inside a syllable block with a consonant.
- How many strokes does ㅠ have? +
- 3. They are written top to bottom and left to right, the same order used for every Korean letter.
- Why is 쥬 not read the way it is written? +
- 쥬 is pronounced [주]. 3 of the cells in this set read differently from how they are written. The rules page quotes the article that decides it.
- Why do some ㅠ cells play a different syllable? +
- 3 of them do. The standard defines those syllables as having the same pronunciation as another one, so rather than play nothing the cell plays that syllable's recording. Each cell names which one it borrows.