Close front rounded vowel
VOWEL SOUND LIKE "EE" [I] WITH ROUNDED LIPS
High front rounded vowel; Close front compressed vowel; IPA y; Y (IPA); Close rounded front vowel; Front closed rounded vowel; Yː (IPA); /y/; Close front protruded vowel; Close-front rounded vowel; Draft:/y̫/; /y̫/
The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is /y/, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y.