Near-close front rounded vowel

Near-close front rounded vowel
ʏ
IPA number	320
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	ʏ
Unicode (hex)	U+028F
X-SAMPA	Y
Kirshenbaum	I.
Braille

The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a near-close front-central rounded vowel.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʏ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Y.

References

IPA: Vowels [edit]
Front Central Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open i y ɨ ʉ ɯ u ɪ ʏ ɨ̞ ʉ̞ ɯ̞ ʊ e ø ɘ ɵ ɤ o e̞ ø̞ ə ɵ̞ ɤ̞ o̞ ɛ œ ɜ ɞ ʌ ɔ æ œ̞ ɐ ʌ̞ ɔ̞ a ɶ ä ɒ̈ ɑ ɒ
Paired vowels are: unrounded • rounded