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œ̃

nasal open-mid front rounded — French un in brun (merging with ɛ̃ in Paris).

open-midfrontroundednasal

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Synthesised in your browser from this sound's own recipe — formants for vowels, filtered noise for fricatives, a burst for plosives. A robot mouth, not a recording: what you hear is the physics the symbol describes.

In combination

Sounds change colour depending on their neighbours — coarticulation is why isolated drilling only gets you so far.

pœ̃
sœ̃
lœ̃
œ̃n
mœ̃m
tœ̃k

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Frenchunum brun bʁœ̃
brown
Parisians merge it into /ɛ̃/: brun = brin.

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