ɜ

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ɜ U+025C, ɜ
LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E
ɛ
IPA Extensions ɝ
U+1D9F, ᶟ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED OPEN E

Phonetic Extensions Supplement

U+1D08, ᴈ
LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED OPEN E

Phonetic Extensions
U+1D4C, ᵌ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED OPEN E

Phonetic Extensions

Translingual

Alternative forms

(IPA): The letter was adopted into the IPA in 1921 as a turned epsilon . Sometime between the IPA chart published in 1957 and the 1989 Kiel Convention, it started to be rendered as a reversed epsilon ɜ, its current form.

Pronunciation

  • (IPA):
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Symbol

ɜ

  1. (IPA) An open-mid central unrounded vowel.
  2. (superscript ⟨ᶟ⟩, IPA) -coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo .
  3. (Uralic Phonetic Alphabet) A vowel of uncertain quality.
    Coordinate terms: , ᴕ̈
vowels of uncertain quality in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Letter

ɜ (upper case )

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet, written in the Latin script.