Korean Alphabet

Consonant
Fortunately, as you will find them below, most of them work in the
same format (consonant + l + + consonant)
as in for the name of
However, there are three exceptional consonants, which have their
own unique names. Ive marked them with asterisk.
Also, some names are difficult to pronounce. This is due to the
unrelease or closure of word-final consonants in Korean.
For example, when in (the name of ) is pronounced,
the outcome is [ot]. Thats because the sound involved for is
not released.

2
3

[G/K]

[N]

[D]

[R/L]

1 2

[M]

[B/P]

[S]

[NULL/NG]

[]

[J]

[CH]

[K]

[T]

[]

[]

[]

[]

[P/F]

[H]

[S]

[NULL/NG]

[]

[]

The double consonants

The term means twin.
This is to indicate that the same letter is doubled.

1
2

3
4

[KK]

[DD]

[PP]

[SS]

[JJ]

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Korean Alphabet
Vowel

[a]

[ya]

[eo]

[yeo]

car

yarn

up

yuh

[o]

[yo]

[u]

[yu]

old

yo

zoo

you

[eu]

[i]

[K]

[T]

good

tree

Theoretically, each vowel has different sound in Korean.

However, in modern Korean, some vowels have no big
difference in sound.
You simply just need to learn how to spell some words
in Korean, just like in English.

[e]

[e]

men

men

and are pronounced like the e in the word egg.

You can think of it as an eh sound.

[ye]

[ye]

ye

ye

and are both pronounced like the ye in yen.

You can think of them as an yeh sound.

3
1

[wa]
wash

3
1

is a combination of and . It is pronounced the

same way as saying immediately followed by ,
quickly as in o-e or the English word way.

[wae]
wet

3
1

is a combination of and l. However, it is pronounced

different than it may look. It is actually pronounced the
same way as saying . Feel free to pronounce the
same way as .

[wae]
wet

2
3

[wo]

[wae]

[wi]

[ui]

whoa

wet

weed

uh-ee

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