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Revised Romanization | Siot |
McCune–Reischauer | Siot |
Siot (character: ㅅ; Korean: 시옷, siot, North Korean: 시읏, sieut) is a consonant of the Korean alphabet.[1] The Unicode for ㅅ is U+3145. Siot indicates an [s] sound like in the English word "staff", but at the end of a syllable it denotes a [t] sound. Before [i], semivowels (like ㅛ, yo) and the vowel ㅟ (wi) it is pronounced [ɕ].[2][3][4][5]