Aspirated Consonants

Goal: Read and write basic syllables with 4 aspirated consonants

• 4 Aspirated Consonants (ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅊ)

Aspirated Consonants – How it is composed

Characters with added strokes represent the harsh sound (ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅊ).

 

Aspirated Consonants – Let’s Read

• Those are unvoiced and aspirated consonants. Aspiration refers to the strong bursts of air that comes out of your mouth when the sound is articulated. In the case of an aspirated sound, the tissue sheet placed in front of the mouth moves significantly as the air is blown out. You can compare 가 and 카

Consonants	Shape	Sounds	Romanization
ㅋ		ㅋ sounds like the ‘k’ in key	k
ㅌ		ㅌ sounds like the ‘t’ in teeth	t
ㅍ		ㅍ sounds like the ‘p’ in pie	p
ㅊ		ㅊ sounds like the ‘ch’ in church	ch

Aspirated Consonants – Let’s Practice

Hide the romanization and read the words aloud.

Consonant	Picture	Vocabulary	Meaning	Romanization
ㅋ		커피	coffee	/keo pi/
ㅌ		토마토	tomato	/to ms to/
ㅍ		피아노	piano	/pi a no/
ㅊ		치마	skirt	/chi ma/