Close-mid central unrounded vowel
| Close-mid central unrounded vowel | |||
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| ɘ | |||
| IPA number | 397 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɘ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0258 | ||
| X-SAMPA | @\ | ||
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The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɘ⟩. This is a mirrored letter e and should not be confused with the schwa ⟨ə⟩, which is a turned e. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed ⟨ë⟩. Certain older sources transcribe this vowel ⟨ɤ̈⟩.
The letter ⟨ɘ⟩ may be used with a lowering diacritic ⟨ɘ̞⟩, to denote the mid central unrounded vowel.