Open-mid front unrounded vowel | |||
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ɛ | |||
IPA Number | 303 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | ɛ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+025B | ||
X-SAMPA | E | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-mid front unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is the Latin epsilon, a Latinized variant of the Greek lowercase epsilon, ⟨ɛ⟩.