schwa

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schwa /ʃwɑː/ noun [countable] technical  1. SLa vowel typically heard in parts of a word that are spoken without stress1(4), such as the ‘a’ in ‘about’ 非重读央元音〔如about中的a〕2. the sign (ə), used to represent the vowel schwa 标音符号/ə/Origin schwa (1800-1900) German Hebrew shewa

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schwa
schwa /ʃwɑː/ noun [countable] technical1. a vowel typically heard in parts of a word that are spoken without stress¹(4), such as the ‘a’ in ‘about’
2. the sign (ə), used to represent the vowel schwa

schwa (also shwa) BrE /ʃwɑː/ 🔊NAmE /ʃwɑː/ 🔊 noun (phonetics 语音学) a vowel sound in parts of words that are not stressed, for example the 'a' in about or the 'e' in moment; the phonetic symbol for this, /ə/ 非重读央元音，弱央元音，混元音（如 about 中的 a 或 moment 中的 e 所发的音）；音标符号 /ə/