Guides

Short guides to reading and typing phonetic symbols and special characters.

• How to read English IPA

  A plain guide to the IPA in English dictionaries: vowels, diphthongs, consonants and stress.

• The kinds of IPA symbols: consonants, vowels and diacritics

  How the IPA chart is organised: pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants, vowels, diacritics and suprasegmentals.

• How to type accented letters on Windows, Mac and phones

  Ways to type é, ü, ñ, ç and other accented letters on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.

• Currency symbols and what they mean

  A list of world currency symbols (€ £ ¥ ₩ ₹ ₽ ₿…) with their names, ISO codes and writing conventions.

• Common math symbols and their names

  Names and meanings of everyday math symbols (± × ÷ ≠ ≈ ∈ ∀ ∑ ∫…), grouped by topic.