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oʊ

closing diphthong o→ʊ — Mandarin ou (dōu); American o in go.

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.

poʊ
soʊ
loʊ
oʊn
moʊm
toʊk

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

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