Digeut (sign: ㄷ; South Korean: 디귿, ''digeut'';
North Korean: 디읃, ''dieut'') is a
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...
in the Korean
alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letter (alphabet), letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from a ...
. Depending on its position, it makes a 'd' or a 't' sound. In an initial or final position in a word, the pronunciation is usually , while after a
vowel
A vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract, forming the nucleus of a syllable. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness a ...
it is pronounced ,
for example in the word ''deudieo'' (드디어, "finally"), the initial ㄷ is , while the second ㄷ is .
Stroke order
Computing codes
References
Hangul jamo
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