schwa
US /ʃwɑː/
UK /ʃwɑː/
名詞
非重讀元音
the unstressed central vowel (as in a in sofa and e in taken), represented by the symbol /ə/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
範例:
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The word 'about' starts with a schwa sound.
單詞“about”以非重讀元音開頭。
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Many unstressed vowels in English are pronounced as a schwa.
英語中許多非重讀元音都發非重讀元音的音。