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Dominic Smith

This content is archived. It is kept for historical reference only. It was last modified in September 2005. It will not be updated.

IPA to UTF-8 Converter

This page converts most (but not all) International Phonetic Alphabet symbols into Unicode (UTF-8) Entities.

NB: Use of this page requires a browser which is JavaScript™ complient and a computer which has Unicode fonts installed. You have a suitable Unicode font installed if you can see a schwa (upside-down letter e) in the next line:

ə

It is highly recommended that you use a recent browser to view this page. There may be unexpected results in older browsers and/or older operating systems, since these may not correctly support Unicode.

You may choose to cut-and-paste the output as HTML code for use in websites or as normal characters for use in your favourite word-procesor. If you do use it on a website, don't forget to put all IPA text inside paragraph tags <p> and that you need to include the following in the <head> section of the page: 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
p {font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode"}
-->
</style>

My thanks to Gail Treves-Brown for helping debug some bits of this code and the associated stylesheet.

  1. Please type the standard orthography of the word (this won't be displayed on the page but is intended to assist you if you need to convert several words)
  2. Click
  3. Click the buttons displaying the necessary characters below in the required order
  4. If you require diacritics, press the letter first, then the diacritic. On the buttons all diacritics are shown on 'a', but they may, of course, be added to most IPA symbols. For example, to type extra-short ĕ, press e and then ă
  5. Click
  6. Repeat as necessary
  7. Cut-and-paste the resulting code into your HTML document

Front Vowels:
                     
Central Vowels:
               
Back Vowels
                 

Plosive Consonants:
                         
Nasal Consonants:
             
Trilled Consonants:
     
Tap/Flap Consonants:
   
Fricative Consonants:
                                           
Lateral Fricative Consonants:
   
Approximate Consonants:
         
Lateral Approximate Consonants:
       

Other symbols:
                       

Non-pulmonic Consonants:
                     

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