The International Phonetic Alphabet is designed with the intention of being able to describe the sounds of words in any language. It is used as a printed guide to pronunciation and in the study of phonetics. This range does not include the full Alphabet, which also needs some Latin and Greek characters, and some Spacing Modifier Letters. For a list of characters with their phonetic meanings, see John Wells’ The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode page.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aboriginal Sans, Aboriginal Serif, Alexander, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Andika Basic, Andron Scriptor Web, Arev Sans, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Aroania, Avdira, Berling Antiqua, Cardo, Caslon, Charis SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, Courier New, Daicing Bible (few), Daicing Harmony (few), Daicing Round (few), Daicing White (few), Daicing Xiaokai (few), DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed, Dialekt Uni, Doulos SIL, e-PhonTranslit UNI, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Frutiger Linotype, Gandhari Unicode, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Hapax Berbère (few), Hapax Touareg (few), Hapax Touareg DàG (few), Hindsight Unicode, jGaramond, Junicode, Kliment Std, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, LeedsUni, Linux Biolinum O, Linux Libertine O, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Marin, Microsoft Sans Serif, Monospace, MPH 2B Damase, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS Reference Sans Serif, MS Reference Serif, MS UI Gothic, PakType Naqsh, ParabaikSans, Quivira, Reader Sans, RomanCyrillic Std, Roman Unicode, Sazanami Mincho, Segoe UI, SImPL, sixpack, Sophia Nubian (few), STIXGeneral, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Tahoma, Thryomanes, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, UniBurma and YOzFontN; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Gentium, GentiumAlt, Helvetica, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, Junicode, Lucida Grande, Monaco, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic and MS PMincho; and in the Unix Unicode fonts Caslon and ClearlyU.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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ɐ | 592 | ɐ | 0250 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A |
ɑ | 593 | ɑ | 0251 | LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA |
ɒ | 594 | ɒ | 0252 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA |
ɓ | 595 | ɓ | 0253 | LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH HOOK |
ɔ | 596 | ɔ | 0254 | LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O |
ɕ | 597 | ɕ | 0255 | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL |
ɖ | 598 | ɖ | 0256 | LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL |
ɗ | 599 | ɗ | 0257 | LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH HOOK |
ɘ | 600 | ɘ | 0258 | LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED E |
ə | 601 | ə | 0259 | LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA |
ɚ | 602 | ɚ | 025A | LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA WITH HOOK |
ɛ | 603 | ɛ | 025B | LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E |
ɜ | 604 | ɜ | 025C | LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E |
ɝ | 605 | ɝ | 025D | LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E WITH HOOK |
ɞ | 606 | ɞ | 025E | LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E |
ɟ | 607 | ɟ | 025F | LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE |
ɠ | 608 | ɠ | 0260 | LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH HOOK |
ɡ | 609 | ɡ | 0261 | LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G |
ɢ | 610 | ɢ | 0262 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G |
ɣ | 611 | ɣ | 0263 | LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA |
ɤ | 612 | ɤ | 0264 | LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN |
ɥ | 613 | ɥ | 0265 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H |
ɦ | 614 | ɦ | 0266 | LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK |
ɧ | 615 | ɧ | 0267 | LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG WITH HOOK |
ɨ | 616 | ɨ | 0268 | LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE |
ɩ | 617 | ɩ | 0269 | LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA |
ɪ | 618 | ɪ | 026A | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I |
ɫ | 619 | ɫ | 026B | LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE TILDE |
ɬ | 620 | ɬ | 026C | LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT |
ɭ | 621 | ɭ | 026D | LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK |
ɮ | 622 | ɮ | 026E | LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH |
ɯ | 623 | ɯ | 026F | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED M |
ɰ | 624 | ɰ | 0270 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED M WITH LONG LEG |
ɱ | 625 | ɱ | 0271 | LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH HOOK |
ɲ | 626 | ɲ | 0272 | LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK |
ɳ | 627 | ɳ | 0273 | LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH RETROFLEX HOOK |
ɴ | 628 | ɴ | 0274 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL N |
ɵ | 629 | ɵ | 0275 | LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED O |
ɶ | 630 | ɶ | 0276 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE |
ɷ | 631 | ɷ | 0277 | LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OMEGA |
ɸ | 632 | ɸ | 0278 | LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI |
ɹ | 633 | ɹ | 0279 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R |
ɺ | 634 | ɺ | 027A | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG |
ɻ | 635 | ɻ | 027B | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH HOOK |
ɼ | 636 | ɼ | 027C | LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH LONG LEG |
ɽ | 637 | ɽ | 027D | LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH TAIL |
ɾ | 638 | ɾ | 027E | LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK |
ɿ | 639 | ɿ | 027F | LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK |
ʀ | 640 | ʀ | 0280 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R |
ʁ | 641 | ʁ | 0281 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL INVERTED R |
ʂ | 642 | ʂ | 0282 | LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH HOOK |
ʃ | 643 | ʃ | 0283 | LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH |
ʄ | 644 | ʄ | 0284 | LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK |
ʅ | 645 | ʅ | 0285 | LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH |
ʆ | 646 | ʆ | 0286 | LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH CURL |
ʇ | 647 | ʇ | 0287 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T |
ʈ | 648 | ʈ | 0288 | LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK |
ʉ | 649 | ʉ | 0289 | LATIN SMALL LETTER U BAR |
ʊ | 650 | ʊ | 028A | LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON |
ʋ | 651 | ʋ | 028B | LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH HOOK |
ʌ | 652 | ʌ | 028C | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V |
ʍ | 653 | ʍ | 028D | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W |
ʎ | 654 | ʎ | 028E | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y |
ʏ | 655 | ʏ | 028F | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y |
ʐ | 656 | ʐ | 0290 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK |
ʑ | 657 | ʑ | 0291 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CURL |
ʒ | 658 | ʒ | 0292 | LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH |
ʓ | 659 | ʓ | 0293 | LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CURL |
ʔ | 660 | ʔ | 0294 | LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP |
ʕ | 661 | ʕ | 0295 | LATIN LETTER PHARYNGEAL VOICED FRICATIVE |
ʖ | 662 | ʖ | 0296 | LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP |
ʗ | 663 | ʗ | 0297 | LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C |
ʘ | 664 | ʘ | 0298 | LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK |
ʙ | 665 | ʙ | 0299 | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B |
ʚ | 666 | ʚ | 029A | LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E |
ʛ | 667 | ʛ | 029B | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK |
ʜ | 668 | ʜ | 029C | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H |
ʝ | 669 | ʝ | 029D | LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH CROSSED-TAIL |
ʞ | 670 | ʞ | 029E | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED K |
ʟ | 671 | ʟ | 029F | LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L |
ʠ | 672 | ʠ | 02A0 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK |
ʡ | 673 | ʡ | 02A1 | LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE |
ʢ | 674 | ʢ | 02A2 | LATIN LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE |
ʣ | 675 | ʣ | 02A3 | LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH |
ʤ | 676 | ʤ | 02A4 | LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH |
ʥ | 677 | ʥ | 02A5 | LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL |
ʦ | 678 | ʦ | 02A6 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH |
ʧ | 679 | ʧ | 02A7 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH |
ʨ | 680 | ʨ | 02A8 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL |
ʩ | 681 | ʩ | 02A9 | LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH |
ʪ | 682 | ʪ | 02AA | LATIN SMALL LETTER LS DIGRAPH |
ʫ | 683 | ʫ | 02AB | LATIN SMALL LETTER LZ DIGRAPH |
ʬ | 684 | ʬ | 02AC | LATIN SMALL LETTER BILABIAL PERCUSSIVE |
ʭ | 685 | ʭ | 02AD | LATIN SMALL LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE |
ʮ | 686 | ʮ | 02AE | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK |
ʯ | 687 | ʯ | 02AF | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK AND TAIL |
Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 4.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2003 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData-Latest.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in June 2003.
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 31st May 2010