Phonetic symbols in Unicode

These phonetic characters are derived from an existing script, usually Latin, Greek or Cyrillic.

The following tables indicates the Unicode code point sequences for phonemes as used in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

An entry in bold italics indicates the character name itself refers to a phoneme such as U+0298 ʘ LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK

Basic Latin/Greek   Latin extended   IPA extension Legend: unrounded • rounded The following figures depict the phonetic vowels and their Unicode / UCS code points, arranged to represent the phonetic vowel trapezium.

Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version of the Character Map program (find it by hitting ⊞ Win+R then type charmap then hit ↵ Enter) since version NT 4.0 – appearing in the consumer edition since XP.

Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap (GNOME) or kcharselect (KDE) – exist on most Linux desktop environments.