IPA Symbols (International Phonetic Alphabet)VOWELS FRONT /i/  see  /ɪ/  sit  /e͜i/ name  /ɛ/  elephant  /æ/ apple CENTRAL  /ɝ/   bird  /ɚ/  weather   /ʌ/   bus  /ə/    sofa, police, focus BACK  /u/    moon  /ʊ/   book  /o͜u/ home  /ɔ/   talk, song  /ɑ/  father, possible DIPHTHONGS /a͜u/ house /a͜i/time /ɔ͜i/  boy  /ju/   music R-VOWEL DIHPTHONGS  /a͜ɚ/   car  /ɔ͜ɚ/  more  /ɛ͜ɚ/  care  /ɪ͜ɚ/   fear  /ʊ͜ɚ/  poor CONSONANTS UNVOICED VOICED STOP-PLOSIVES  /p/   pen  /t/   tea  /k/  kitchen  /b/   boy  /d/   dog  /g/    good VOICED NASALS  /m/  some  /n/   sun  /ŋ/   sing VOICED SYLLABIC  /m̩/socialism  /n̩/certain FRICATIVES /f/ fish  /θ/   Thursday  /h/  happen  /v/   victory  /ð/    this SEMI-VOWEL /l/   listen (light “l”)  /ɫ/  bell (dark “l”)  / / able SIBILANTS   /s/   sun  /ʃ/   shoe  /ʧ/  church  /z/   zebra  /ʒ/   vision /ʤ/  judge GLIDES /w/  winter  /j/  yes  /r/  run UNVOICED/VOICED  /hw/ whisper /hj/ human A single speech sound — either a vowel or a consonant — is indicated by an IPA symbol between two slashes — / p /.  A word is shown phonetically in brackets — [pɛn]. A primary stress is indicated by an accent mark occurring slightly above and before the syllable that is to be stressed: [ `fou kəs ] .  A secondary stress is shown by an accent mark occurring slightly below and before a syllable receiving a weak stress: [ ,ri ɪn ,tɝ prə `tei ʃən ]. A stop-plosive consonant that is stopped-but-not-exploded is indicated by the symbol /  ̚ / just above and to the right of the IPA symbol / t̚ /: [ ə `pɑɚt̚  mənt ].