Phonetic alphabet in HTML [əvɐuβzεð]

Phonetic characters on your website

If I’ve learned anything in my linguistics and lexicography classes, it is that the best way to describe the prononciation of a word is to use the IPA, “international phonetic alphabet” (in English - API in French ([alphabet phonétique international]). So to provide you with such features as French pronounciation along with my definitions, I’ve use IPA. I thought I’d share the source for all of the HTLM codes for these special caracters.

Code for special characters online

If you need the code for a rhotic schwa, the Zulu voiced lateral fricative, or just your basic schwa - Penn State University organised and published the perfect tool : an index of the Unicode Entity Codes for Phonetic Symbols.

Other special unicode characters

If the symbol for the bilabial click and the front-round glide aren’t enough for you, I’ve found yet another source. If you need even more specialised characters, check out the Unicode Consortium - it enables people around the world to use computers in any language : Unicode Character Name Index.