스트레이키즈
Stray Kids · official romanization Seuteurei Kijeu
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Red first consonantBlue vowelBlack final consonant (batchim)
Block 1: 스 [seu]
2 letters
First consonant
시옷 siot
[s]Vowel
[eu]lips flat, like “oo” without rounding
Built block · vowel underneath
ㅅ + ㅡ =
스
Block 2: 트 [teu]
2 letters
First consonant
티읕 tieut
[t]t with a strong puff of air
Vowel
[eu]lips flat, like “oo” without rounding
Built block · vowel underneath
ㅌ + ㅡ =
트
Block 3: 레 [re]
2 letters
First consonant
리을 rieul
[r]r as a quick tap of the tongue
Vowel
[e]like the “e” in “bed”
Built block · vowel on the right
ㄹ + ㅔ =
레
Block 4: 이 [i]
2 letters
First consonant
이응 ieung
[silent]silent at the start: it only holds the place
Vowel
[i]i as in “see”
Built block · vowel on the right
ㅇ + ㅣ =
이
Block 5: 키 [ki]
2 letters
First consonant
키읔 kieuk
[k]k with a strong puff of air
Vowel
[i]i as in “see”
Built block · vowel on the right
ㅋ + ㅣ =
키
Block 6: 즈 [jeu]
2 letters
First consonant
지읒 jieut
[j]soft j, no puff of air
Vowel
[eu]lips flat, like “oo” without rounding
Built block · vowel underneath
ㅈ + ㅡ =
즈
All blocks together
스 + 트 + 레 + 이 + 키 + 즈 =
스트레이키즈
Spelling vs. sound
The group writes its name with a space, 스트레이 키즈, and the official romanization is Seuteurei Kijeu. Korean has no consonant clusters, so S-T-R becomes 스-트-레, and the final “ds” sound of “kids” becomes 즈 (ㅈ+ㅡ).
Say it seu-teu-re-i-ki-jeu. ㅡ is short, with flat lips, so in quick speech 스트 sounds close to “st”. 레이 together sounds like “ray”, and ㅌ and ㅋ are said with a strong puff of air.
ㅡ is the vowel Hangul uses to carry a lone consonant from English: 스 for s, 트 for t, 즈 for z. You will see the same trick in many loanwords.
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