iː
long close front unrounded — ee in see.
closefrontunroundedlong
Hear it
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.
Build longer chains in the combination lab.
How each language writes it
| Language | Spellings | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | eeeae_eie-y (final, short) | see siː see |
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