Aspirated Consonants

For aspirated consonants, we have :

Consonants	Roman	Examples
ㅋ	k	as in kite
ㅌ	t	as in tank
ㅍ	p	as in punk
ㅊ	ch	as in cheese

Practise writing these aspirated consonants.

To understand what an aspirated consonant is, put your hand in front of your lips while saying kite. You can feel a burst of air. The difference between ㅋ (an aspirated consonant) and ㄱ (a simple consonant) is the amount of air you exhale when you make the sound. When you pronounce ㄱ, the amount of air you expel is quite small. This difference is similar to that between ‘ㅌ and ㄷ’, ‘ㅍ and ㅂ’ and ‘ㅊ and ㅈ’.

Now make some syllables with ㅏ:

Examples :

Hangeul	Pronounce	Meaning
차	cha	tea; car
차표	cha-pyo	railroad (bus, streetcar) ticket
카드	ka-deu	card
카메라	ka-me-ra	camera
타자기	ta-ja-gi	typewriter
타이어	ta-i-eo	tire
파도	pa-do	wave
파리	pa-ri	Paris

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