Phonemic Character Keyboard (to test yourself on the symbols, click here)

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i: ɪ ʊ u:
sheep ship book shoot
e ə ɜ: ɔ:
left teacher her door
æ ʌ ɑ: ɒ
hat up far on
ɪə /
here wait
ʊə ɔɪ əʊ
tourist coin show
hair like mouth
p b t d ʧ ʤ k g
pea boat tree dog cheese joke coin go
f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ
free video thing this see zoo sheep television
m n ŋ h l r w j
mouse now thing hope love run we you
. ˈ ˌ ʔ ˑ ɚ ɝ ɹ

The phonemic chart contains all 44 sounds that make up words in spoken English. It's very useful for studying English pronunciation, as it's the one used by most dictionaries, but there's no easy way of writing in phonemic "font" in most software. You can use this chart to type in phonemic symbols for use in documents, teaching materials and websites.

Click on the symbols to insert them into the text field in your desired order, then copy and paste them into Microsoft Word or any other software that supports Unicode fonts. Be sure to select the right font in your software: usually Gentium, Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans Unicode.

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This chart represents the 44 phonemes of Received Pronunciation. Please see Richard Ashida's full IPA picker (which was a great help in writing this) for the entire IPA.

This chart makes basic use of the most popular "phonemic chart" layout, designed by Adrian Underhill. For more information, see:

Underhill, A (1994) Sound Foundations: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation, Macmillan