ɜ

ɜ U+025C, ɜ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E ← ɛ [U+025B] IPA Extensions ɝ → [U+025D]

Character variations

ᶟ U+1D9F, ᶟ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED OPEN E ← ᶞ [U+1D9E] Phonetic Extensions Supplement ᶠ → [U+1DA0]

See also: ᴈ [U+1D08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED OPEN E] and Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Alternative forms

(IPA): The letter was adopted into the IPA in 1921 as a turned epsilon ⟨ᴈ⟩. 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) [ɜ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ɜ].
3. (UPA) A wildcard for any vowel, or for a vowel of uncertain quality.

   Coordinate term: ʌ

   Coordinate terms: ᴕ, ᴕ̈, ᴐ

vowel wildcards in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Kildin Sami

Letter

ɜ (dz) (upper case Ɜ)

1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet.