The open-mid central rounded vowel is a type of
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.Due to either a typographic or design error, IPA charts were published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, , and this graphic variant made its way into Unicode. The form is considered correct.
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