ɜ

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

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

ᴈ U+1D08, ᴈ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED OPEN E ← ᴇ [U+1D07] Phonetic Extensions ᴉ → [U+1D09]

ᵌ U+1D4C, ᵌ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED OPEN E ← ᵋ [U+1D4B] Phonetic Extensions ᵍ → [U+1D4D]

Translingual

Alternative forms

The letter was adopted into the IPA in 1921 as a turned epsilon ⟨ᴈ⟩. Sometime between 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) open-mid central unrounded vowel

   (superscript) [ɜ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ɜ].