This article is a technical description of the phonetics and phonology of Korean. Unless otherwise noted, statements in this article refer to South Korean standard language based on the Seoul dialect.
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex/ Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m ㅁ | n ㄴ | ŋ ㅇ | |||
| Stop and affricate |
plain | p ㅂ | t ㄷ | tʂ, ts ㅈ | k ㄱ | |
| tense | p͈ ㅃ | t͈ ㄸ | t͈ʂ, t͈s ㅉ | k͈ ㄲ | ||
| aspirated | pʰ ㅍ | tʰ ㅌ | tʂʰ, tsʰ ㅊ | kʰ ㅋ | ||
| Fricative | plain/aspirated | s, sʰ ㅅ | h ㅎ | |||
| tense | s͈ ㅆ | |||||
| Liquid | l~ɾ ㄹ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɰ | |||