ᵻ
- (NAPA)Anear-close central unrounded vowel, IPA[ɪ̈] =[ɨ̞].
- (IPA, unofficial)Areduced variant of thenear-close central unrounded vowel[ɪ̈] =[ɨ̞].
- (superscript⟨ᶧ⟩)[ᵻ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic[ᵻ].
- (lexicography)A symbol used in some English-language dictionaries to denote aphoneme of some varieties of English, including standard Southern British English, that may be realised variously as[ɪ] or[ə] without error.
The IPA provides two letters forreduced vowels: low/open⟨ɐ⟩ and mid⟨ə⟩. These are not defined for rounding. For languages such as English, French and Russian that have additional or just different reduced vowels, some sources use the non-IPA letters⟨ᵿ⟩ and⟨ᵻ⟩ for high/close rounded and unrounded reduced vowels, or redefine IPA⟨ɵ⟩ for a specifically rounded mid reduced vowel.
