Japanese Phonemes

Symbol	Sample	Description
a	ai
i	ima
M	uta
e	egao
o	omoi
k	kokoro
k'	kibou	followed by /i/
g	genki
g'	giri	followed by /i/
N	ongaku	nasalised /g/
N'	kagi	followed by /i/, nasalised /g/
s	sadame
S	shiawase
z	kizu
Z	iji
dz	zuboshi	beginning of word
dZ	jibun	beginning of word
t	taido
t'	baraeti	followed by /i/
ts	tsuki
tS	inochi
d	daichi
d'	merodi	followed by /i/
n	namida
J	nioi	followed by /i/
h	hana
h\	mahou	inside a word
C	hinagiku	followed by /i/
p\	hushigi
p\'	fianse
b	boku
b'	bijin	followed by /i/
p	posuto
p'	piano
m	manako
m'	mirai	followed by /i/
j	yume
4	sora
4'	rikutsu	followed by /i/
w	watashi
N\	jikan

Misc Phonemes

Symbol	Sample	Notes
[br1]~[br5]	Breathing
[-]	Continue note
[Sil]	Silence	Not work with Korean
[Asp]	Deprecated breath	Deprecated in V3+
[R]	Trilled R	Not work with V3 English
[?]	Glottal stop	Japanese + Chinese only
[x_0]	Devoiced sonorant*	Replace 'x' with phoneme

*Adding _0 to a sonorant alters its pronunciation to be pronounced voicelessly. The sonorants includes the vowels, glides, approximants, liquids (laterals and rhotics) and nasals, thus the available devoiced sonorants varies per language.

English Phonemes (Vowels)

Symbol	Sample	Comments
@	the sun	(schwa)
V	strut
e	them
i:	beef
{	trap
O:	taught
Q	lot
u:	boot
@r	maker
eI	pay
aI	buy
OI	boy
@U	oat
aU	loud
I@	beer
e@	bear
U@	poor
O@	pour
Q@	star

English Phonemes (Consonants)

Symbol	Sample	Comments
w	way
j	yellow
b	cab
g	bag
bh	big	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
dh	dog	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
gh	god	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
dZ	jeans
v	vote
D	their
z	resort
Z	Asia
m	mind
n	night
N	long
l	feel
l0	list	beginning of syllable
p	dip
t	sit
k	rock
ph	peace	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
th	top	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
kh	kiss	beginning of syllable, with aspiration
tS	touch
f	feel
T	think
s	sea
S	share
h	hat