ɜ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

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

(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):
    IPA(file)

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. (Uralic Phonetic Alphabet) A vowel of uncertain quality.
    Coordinate terms: ᴕ, ᴕ̈
vowels of uncertain quality in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Letter

ɜ (upper case Ɜ)

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