Close front unrounded vowel

The **close front unrounded vowel**(also called **high front unrounded vowel**), is a type of vowel. It is an **i** in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It sounds like the English word _meet._ It is also called a **long-e** in American English.  In English this sound has more length then it should and is not usually pronounced as a pure vowel(it is a diphthong). A pure  sound can be heard in languages such as French with words like _chic_.

## In languages

|colspan="2"|Language|Word|IPA|Meaning|Notes|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="2"|Afrikaans|||'thief'|See Afrikaans phonology|||||
|Arabic|Standard|/diin||'religion'|See Arabic phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Catalan|||'sic'|See Catalan phonology|||||
|Chinese|Mandarin|/||'seven'|See Standard Chinese phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Chuvash|çип|[ɕ̬ip]|'thread'||||||
|colspan="2"|Czech|||'white'|See Czech phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Dutch|||'beet'|See Dutch phonology|||||
|rowspan="2"|English|All dialects|_fr**ee**_||'free'|In certain dialects, it can be pronunced as a diphthong. See English phonology||||
|Australian|_b**i**t_||'bit'|Also described as near-close front . See Australian English phonology||||||
|colspan="2"|French|||'finished'|See French phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|German|||'goal'|See Standard German phonology|||||
|Greek|Modern Standard|/ _k**í**pos_||'garden'|See Modern Greek phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Hungarian|||'arch'|See Hungarian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Italian|||'rage'|See Italian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Japanese|/||'silver'|See Japanese phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Khmer|/||'doctrine'|See Khmer phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Korean|/||'child'|See Korean phonology|||||
|rowspan="3"|Kurdish|Kurmanji (Northern)||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|'milk'|rowspan="3"|See Kurdish phonology|
|Sorani (Central)|rowspan="2"|/šîr||||||||
|Palewani (Southern)||||||||||
|colspan="2"|Lithuanian|||'man'|See Lithuanian orthography|||||
|Malay|Malaysian Malay|_ikut_|[i.kʊt]|'to follow'|See Malay phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Polish|||'teddy bear'|See Polish phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Portuguese|||'thin'|Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by . See Portuguese phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Romanian|||'island'|See Romanian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Rungus|||'to come'||||||
|colspan="2"|Russian|/list||'leaf'|Will only be used after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Serbo-Croatian|||'hayfork'|See Serbo-Croatian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Spanish|||'type'|Can be written by . See Spanish phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Sotho|||'to call'|Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels. See Sotho phonology|||||
|Swedish|Central Standard|||'to stay'|See Swedish phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Thai|/krit||'dagger'||||||
|colspan="2"|Turkish|||'rope'|See Turkish phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Ukrainian|/misto||'city, town'|See Ukrainian phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Welsh|es **i**|[eːs iː]|'I went'|See Welsh phonology|||||
|colspan="2"|Yoruba|||'spoon'||||||

## Infobox (ipa)

- **ipa symbol**: i
- **ipa number**: 301
- **decimal**: 105
- **x-sampa**: i
- **kirshenbaum**: i
- **braille**: i