Close-mid front unrounded vowel
| Close-mid front unrounded vowel | |||
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| e | |||
| IPA number | 302 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | e | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0065 | ||
| X-SAMPA | e | ||
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The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨e⟩.
For the close-mid front unrounded vowel that is usually transcribed with the symbol ⟨ɪ⟩ or ⟨i⟩, see near-close front unrounded vowel. If the usual symbol is ⟨e⟩, the vowel is listed here.