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ɵy

closing diphthong ɵ→y — Cantonese eoi (seoi2 水).

diphthong

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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.

pɵy
sɵy
lɵy
ɵyn
mɵym
tɵyk

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

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