This symbol kind of feels like two sounds because it is usually written with two letters, but it’s actually considered one IPA symbol. It almost always comes at the end of a word.
/ŋk/is very similar to /ŋ/, but to make /ŋk/ you have to lower your tongue before the airflow stops.
/ŋk/ is made the same way as /ŋ/, by pushing the back of the tongue back and up, but /ŋk/ is produced when the tongue is lowered before the airflow has stopped. /ŋk/ starts voiced but the voicing ends when the tongue is moved down, and we can see this, because /k/ is not voiced. /ŋk/ is almost always at the end of a word. Let’s take a look at some examples. Here are some [in] word-final position: link, hunk, Bank, thank. And here I’ve put a minimal pair. These are identical except for the very last sound that we hear. Think is not the same as thing. So that little difference makes two different words in English, so be careful. Let’s look at some sentences: He thanked the bank for the link. She drank too much pink fruit drink. His trunk was a hunk of junk.