Open-mid central rounded vowel


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, 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.
IPA charts were first published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, , and this variant made its way into Unicode as. The IPA charts were later changed to the current closed reversed epsilon, and this was adopted into Unicode as.

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