Naming Conventions of The International Phonetic Alphabet - The Letters

The Letters

The traditional names of the Latin and Greek letters are used for unmodified symbols. In Unicode, some of the symbols of Greek origin have Latin forms for use in IPA; the others use the symbols from the Greek section.

Examples:

IPA symbol name phonetic description Unicode name
p (lower-case) p voiceless bilabial stop LATIN SMALL LETTER P
x (lower-case) x voiceless velar fricative LATIN SMALL LETTER X
r (lower-case) r coronal trill LATIN SMALL LETTER R
β beta voiced bilabial fricative GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
ɛ epsilon open-mid front unrounded vowel LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
ɣ gamma voiced velar fricative LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA
θ theta voiceless dental fricative GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA
χ chi voiceless uvular fricative GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI
ɸ phi voiceless bilabial fricative LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI
ʊ upsilon near-close near-back rounded vowel LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON

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