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uː

long close back rounded — oo in food.

closebackroundedlong

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.

puː
suː
luː
uːn
muːm
tuːk

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Englishoou_eewou (soup) food fuːd
food

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