IPA Helper

Click on any of the IPA characters/symbols in the tables below to add them to the text boxes. You can also type directly into the Unicode text box.

Unicode:

HTML:

 Surround HTML with Unicode font styling

IPA fonts

• Charis SIL – extensive Latin, Greek and Cyrillic support; includes the new labiodental flap and many non-standard symbols, in roman, italic and bold faces.
• DejaVu – full Unicode IPA support.
• Doulos Sil – a Times/Times New Roman style font, which contains the same characters as Charis SIL, but only in one face, roman.
• Gentium – extensive Unicode support, but does not yet contain tone letters or the new labiodental flap.

If you have Windows 7, most of the pre-installed fonts have exensive IPA support, and Segoe UI will be enough under most circumstances.

Other resources

• Wikipedia’s article on the IPA
• The International Phonetic Association website
• Video recordings of the sounds of the IPA by the University of Sheffield
• Complete IPA chart with sound samples

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