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Phonetic character lists  

If you want to use any special phonetic characters, you can copy and paste them from this page. Note, the examples below will vary from accent to accent. For a complete list of phonetic symbols for RP English, see: https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbolsforenglish.htm.

Consonants   

Symbol Example
tʃ church, catch, nature
dʒ judge, age, soldier
θ thing, author, path
ð the, other, smooth
ʃ ship, sure, national
ʒ pleasure, vision
ŋ ring, anger
ʔ (glottal stop), e.g. water pronounced wa'er in some accents

Vowels

ɪ pin, kit
æ cat, hat
ɒ cot, hot
ʌ love
ʊ foot
ɔ court, bought
ɜ nurse, hurt
ə the, about

Syllabic

n̩ sudden
l̩ middle

Stress

ˈ (stress mark)

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