Rounded half-open front tongue vowel

IPA mark	œ
IPA number	311
IPA character description	Ligature from the Latin minuscules o and e
Unicode	U + 0153
HTML (dec.)	& # 339;
X-SAMPA	9
Kirshenbaum	W
Audio sample ? / i [ ʔœː ]

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the rounded half-open front tongue vowel in different languages:

• German :
  • [⁠ œ ⁠] : "short" ö
    • Example: r ö smile [ʁœçəln]
• French :
  • [⁠ œ ⁠] : eu, œu often
    • Examples: b eu rre [ bœʀ ], c œu r [ kœʀ ]
  • [ œ̃ ]: un, um
    • Examples: br un [ bʀœ̃ ], parf um [ paʀfœ̃ ]

See also

• vocal
• Front tongue vowel
• Rounding (phonetics)