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IPA Keyboard
Insert IPA symbols from a consonant grid, vowel trapezoid, diacritic and tone panels, or search by description.
IPA Keyboard: Click a symbol to insert it at the cursor or replace selected text. Search descriptions such as voiceless dental fricative to find the matching character. Combining marks follow the sound they modify; the dotted circle displayed on buttons is not inserted. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
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Pulmonic consonants
| Manner / place | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | |||||||||||
| Nasal | |||||||||||
| Trill | |||||||||||
| Tap or flap | |||||||||||
| Fricative | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | |||||||||||
| Approximant | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant |
Paired symbols place the voiceless sound first and the voiced sound second. Blank cells have no symbol in this chart.
Vowels
Non-pulmonic consonants
Other symbols
Diacritics
Superscripts and secondary articulation
Suprasegmentals
Tones and word accents
Click inserts at the cursor or replaces selected text. Combining marks follow the sound they modify; the dotted circle is only a display aid.
Chart inventory adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet, © International Phonetic Association. Chart data and this chart arrangement: CC BY-SA 4.0. Additional superscript m, eng and schwa are Unicode character aids. IPA chart source · Licence
IPA attribution
Chart inventory adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet, copyright International Phonetic Association. Chart source: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart . Chart data and this independently arranged chart are available under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ .
The IPA’s 2012 announcement used CC BY-SA 3.0; its current chart terms use CC BY-SA 4.0. No chart image, audio recording or font is bundled. Additional superscript m, eng and schwa are Unicode aids.
Unicode input
IPA Extensions: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf . Combining Diacritical Marks: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf . Symbols are copied as characters, including combining marks, rather than as images.
How to use it
- Choose the script, language or standard you need.
- Enter text, click a chart cell or start a practice session.
- Copy the result, or use the chart’s print and quiz controls where shown.
Privacy & limitations
Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Kana quiz progress is saved on this device; the other script tools do not save your text.
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Frequently asked questions
Does the chart play sounds?
It is a character keyboard. It provides symbols and descriptions but does not play recordings.
How do I add a diacritic?
Click after the sound you want to modify, then choose the combining mark. A dotted circle makes the mark visible on the button; it does not enter the transcription.
What do paired consonants and vowels mean?
A consonant pair puts the voiceless member first and voiced member second. At each vowel position, the unrounded vowel comes first and the rounded vowel second.
Why might symbols look different after copying?
The text uses Unicode characters. Other applications use their own fonts, so a font with IPA coverage gives the most consistent display.
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