IPA character picker

Click on characters to create text in the box below, then copy & paste to your content.
pb td ʈɖ cɟ kɡ qɢ ʔ
m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ
ʙ rɾ ɽ ʀ
ɸβ fv θð sz ʃʒ ʂʐ çʝ xɣ χʁ ħʕ hɦ
ʋ ɹ ɻ j ɰ
ɬɮ l ɭ ʎ ʟɫ
ƥɓ ƭɗ ƈʄ ƙɠ ʠʛ
ʘ ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ
iyɨʉɯu
ɪʏʊ
eøɘɵɤo
ə
ɛœɜɞʌɔ
æɐ
aɶɑɒ
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̋ ˥ ̌ ˩˥
́ ˦ ̂ ˥˩
̄ ˧ ᷄ ˦˥
̀ ˨ ᷅ ˩˨
̏ ˩ ᷈ ˧˦˧
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↑ ↘
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Quick start
(You must have JavaScript enabled.) Choose a view (see below). Click on characters/shapes to insert text into the output field or use your keyboard for Latin characters, delete, etc. You can also add codepoints and escapes via the "Add codepoint" field (hit return to add to the output field).
Then cut & paste the result to your document, or use the tabs to get further information about the characters. You can also paste text into the output field to get information about it. Use the yellow box to set preferences or search (regular expressions allowed - for example, to find characters with a 'Z' surrounded by spaces in the name, enter \bz\b, or the short form :z:).
About the chart
Includes all the symbols in the Unicode the standard IPA chart with the exception of the labiodental tap or flap, for which no Unicode character seems to exist. (Charis and Doulos fonts provide a glyph associated with a private use character (), but I have not included that in the chart.) The table draws characters from several Unicode blocks.
I also added the following diacritics on request: denasalised, derhoticised, frictionalised, unaspirated, nasal emission; and the following character: velarized voiced alveolar lateral approximant.
Since the diacritics are phonetic symbols in their own right, the output is converted to Unicode Normalisation Form D each time you click on a character. (If you don't know what that means, don't worry about this paragraph.) If you paste characters into the output box, or type from the keyboard, these may not be fully decomposed, but as soon as you click on the next image, the whole string will be decomposed. (This normalisation process excludes any han, hangul and supplementary characters.)
NOTE: Can can use phonetic terminology when searching (eg. 'affricate', 'palatal','lower', etc) in this picker, in addition to Unicode character names.
Alternative views are available. You can start up directly in one of the views by appending the following to your URI: ?view=, followed by one of, respectively, alphabet or fontgrid.
Alphabet Characters are arranged similarly to the standard IPA chart. The trill and tap or flap rows of the standard chart have been merged to save space. The same applies to the approximant and lateral approximant rows. Non-pulmonic symbols were also added to the last two rows of the table for the same reason.
Font grid Shows characters in Unicode order, using whatever font is specified in the Font list or Custom font input fields. This allows comparison of fonts (especially useful in IE, which shows if a glyph is missing from a font).
Useful URIs
Instructions for use
Descriptions of the symbols http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-consonants
IPA Home page http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ and list of symbols.
Recommended (free) fonts: Charis SIL, Doulos SIL or Gentium
If something is missing or buggy
... let me know.
Copyright © 2006-2008, Richard Ishida. Last modified: 2009-01-05 15:59