How To Pronounce Sharp

In British English, sharp is pronounced /ʃɑːp/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃɑːʴp̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃɑːrp/.

Sharp has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.