/ɜ/

For a note on how AWE organizes its group of articles on vowels, basically by aspects of sound and of writing, see category:vowels.

ɜ

The symbol /ɜ/ (a 'turned epsilon') is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the 'open-mid central unrounded vowel': the sound heard characteristically in 'fir' (and 'fur'), 'turn' (and 't'ern').

It may be represented by many spellings,