Open-mid front unrounded vowel
| 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, 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⟩.