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Click to hear each symbol and sample word. This interactive phonemic chart contains all 44 sounds used in spoken British English (Received Pronunciation).
The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively. The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth").
List of Unicode Symbols. Almost half a million symbols of all kinds, including arrows, mathematical signs, emojis, hieroglyphics, and ancient scripts, are available. Each symbol lies in its assigned cell in the table. Just scroll down to explore the whole variety of Unicode characters.
The Cambridge Dictionary uses the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to show pronunciation in writing. You can recognize these pronunciations by the slashes before and after, for example, /pen/. You can also click on the icons to listen to the pronunciation in UK or US English.
A phoneme is the smallest sound in a language. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of letters and symbols that are used to represent the individual sounds of a language. The table below lists the IPA symbols used in Pronunciation Coach for American English.
The English alphabet has 26 letters, starting with A and ending with Z. They can be large letters (ABC) or small letters (abc).
This page shows the English alphabet, how to pronounce the letter individually, and how the letter takes on different pronunciations within words using the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols.
