IPA in Unicode

International Phonetic Alphabet can be represented in Unicode. The following is an attempt at representing the IPA chart, using Unicode

See also: Table of Unicode characters, 128 to 999, Unicode and HTML

Consonants (pulmonic)

IPA	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d			ʈ ɖ	c ɟ	k g	q ɢ		ʔ
Nasal	m	ɱ	n			ɳ	ɲ	ŋ	ɴ
Trill	ʙ		r						ʀ
Tap or Flap			ɾ			ɽ
Fricative	ɸ β	f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ ʒ	ʂ ʐ	ç ʝ	x ɣ	χ ʁ	ħ ʕ	h ɦ
Lateral Fricative			ɬ ɮ
Approximant		ʋ	ɹ			ɻ	j	ɰ
Lateral Approximant			l			ɭ	ʎ	ʟ

• Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant.
• Shaded areas indicate artculations judged impossible.

Consonants (non-pulmonic)

	Clicks		Voiced implosives		Ejectives
ʘ	Bilabial	ɓ	Bilabial	ʼ	as in:
ǀ	Dental	ɗ	Dental/alveolar	pʼ	Bilabial
ǃ	Alveolar (retroflex)	ʄ	Palatal	tʼ	Dental/aveolar
ǂ	Palatoaveolar (alveolar)	ɠ	Velar	kʼ	Velar
ǁ	Aveolar lateral (lateral)	ʛ	Uvular	sʼ	Alveolar fricative

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i • y		ɨ • ʉ		ɯ • u
		ɪ ʏ		ʊ
Close-mid	e • ø		ɘ • ɵ		ɤ • o
			ə
Open-mid	ɛ • œ		ɜ • ɞ		ʌ • ɔ
	æ		ɐ
Open	a • ɶ				ɑ • ɒ

Other symbols

ʍ	Voiceless labial-velar fricative
w	Voiced labial-velar approximant
ɥ	Voiced labial-palatal approximant
ʜ	Voiceless epiglottal fricative
ʢ	Voiced epiglottal fricative
ʡ	Epiglottal plosive
ɕ ʑ	Alveolo-palatal fricatives
ɺ	Alveolar lateral flap
ɧ	Simultaneous ʃ and x

stress ˌSecondary stress ːLong ˑHalf-long ˘Extra-short .Syllable break |Minor (foot) group ‖Major (intonation) group ‿Linking (absence of a break)

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Tones and word accents

e̋ or ˥	Extra high
é or ˦	High
ē or ˧	Mid
è or ˨	Low
ȅ or ˩	Extra low
ě	Rise
ê	Fall
↓	Downstep
↑	Upstep
↗	Global rise
↘	Global fall

Note: Unicode does not support most IPA symbols for non-flat tones. To represent those, one possibility is to use numbers in the subscript, e.g. /e₅₃/ for a high falling /e/.

Diacritics

n̥ d̥	Voiceless	b̤ a̤	Breathy voiced	t̪ d̪	Dental
s̬ t̬	Voiced	b̰ a̰	Creaky voiced	t̺ d̺	Apical
tʰ dʰ	Aspirated	t̼ d̼	Linguolabial	t̻ d̻	Laminal
ɔ̹	More rounded	tʷ dʷ	Labialized	ẽ	Nasalized
ɔ̜	Less rounded	tʲ dʲ	Palatalized		Nasal release
u̟	Advanced	tˠ dˠ	Velarized		Lateral release
i̠	Retracted	tˁ dˁ	Pharyngealized		No audible release
ë	Centralized	l̴	Velarized or pharyngealized
e̽	Mid-centralized	e̝	Raised
ɹ̩	Syllabic	e̞	Lowered
e̯	Non-syllabic	e̘	Advanced tongue root
ə˞	Rhoticity	e̙	Retracted tongue root

Fonts

Most IPA symbols are not included in Times New Roman, the default font for Latin scripts in Internet Explorer. To properly view IPA symbols in Internet Explorer, you should set your browser font to Arial Unicode MS or another font that includes IPA extensions.

Fonts should display properly out of the box with Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and other modern browsers.