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Korean Pronunciation

Korean spelling keeps a word's shape rather than its sound, so what you read and what you hear come apart constantly. Type something in and see how it is actually said, and which rule did it.

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As pronounced

조아요

Romanised

joayo

What changed

  • 좋조

Why

  • ㅎ dropping · ㅎ 탈락

    ㅎ disappears between a consonant and a vowel. 좋아요 is said 조아요.

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Romanisation follows the Revised Romanization of Korean, which by convention does not write tensing. Compound words sometimes take a ㅅ sound between their parts that spelling does not show; those are not predicted here.