| Open-mid central rounded vowel | |
|---|---|
| ɞ | |
| ɔ̈ | |
| IPA number | 395 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ɞ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+025E |
| X-SAMPA | 3\ |
| Kirshenbaum | O" |
| Braille |   |
| Listen | |
The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel, is a vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɞ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed ⟨ɔ̈⟩.
Due to either typographic or design error, IPA charts were published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, ⟨ʚ⟩, and this graphic variant made its way into Unicode as U+029A ʚ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E. The form ⟨ɞ⟩ (U+025E ɞ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E) is considered correct.
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