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

[U+1D9E]
Phonetic Extensions Supplement
[U+1DA0]

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

[U+1D07]
Phonetic Extensions
[U+1D09]
U+1D4C, ᵌ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED OPEN E

[U+1D4B]
Phonetic Extensions
[U+1D4D]

TranslingualEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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SymbolEdit

ɜ

  1. (IPA) open-mid central unrounded vowel
    (superscript) [ɜ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ɜ].