Near-open front unrounded vowel
VOWEL SOUND LIKE A IN ENGLISH "CAT"
Lax open front unrounded vowel; Fairly-open front unrounded vowel; Æ (IPA); AE (IPA); /æ/
The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase of the ligature.