元音音标表（20个）
5个元音的字母音 a [ei] e [i:] i [ai] o [əu] u [u:]
5个元音的短元音：
a [əe] bag cat hat map
e [e] pen bed ten hen
I [i] big pig sit hill
o [כ] box hot dog frog
u [u] but mum bus mug
12个单元音：
短元音[əe] [e] [i] [כ] [۸] [u] [ə]
长元音 [i:] [כ:] [a:] [u:] [ə:]
8个双元音：[ei] [ai] [əu] [au] [כi] [iə] [eə] [uə]
元音发音规则表：
1.单元音/i:/ see me be she need read meal eat seat deep keep
开音节中的e/i:/ me be she
ee /i:/ see sleep deep feet need
ea /i:/ read eat meal seat
2.单元音 /i/ in it is fit pin bit kiss sick miss fish rich lid
闭音节中的i /i/ if,his,film(闭音节指以辅音结尾的音节)
闭音节中的y /i/ sympathy,syllable,system,gym
位于词尾的y /i/ city,pity,willingly,possibility
3.单元音 /e/ get let bed pen best rest wet never better best
闭音节中的e /e/ bed,peg,set,tell
ea /e/ dead,heaven,feather
4.单元音/əe/ hat cat rat cap map fat man thank stamp fact
闭音节中的 a / əe / bad,lad,rat,cab
5.单元音 /a:/ heart arm darn farm cart fast car dark barn pass
ar /a:/ arm,ark,lard,dark,car,card,hard,harm
6.单元音 / כ / lot got job shop soft song top hot box pot lock
闭音节中的o / כ / hot,got,not,lost,on,soft
7./ כ:/ tall fall wall Paul Maud walk call yawn thought
or / כ:/ or,sport,bored,horse,more,before
a(+ll或lk) / כ:/ all,fall,talk,walk
aw / כ:/ law,paw,draw,flaw,claw
8.单元音 /u/ cook book look put good full foot would
u /u/ put,full,pull,push,sugar,cushion
oo /u/ good,took,wood,wool,stood,bedroom
ou /u/ could,would,should
9.单元音 /u:/ too soon rule boot fool school soup cool lose new
oo /u:/ fool,booth,room,food
ou /u:/ soup,you,group
o /u:/ do,to,who
10./ ۸/ cup bus gun hut sung duck lung luck cut stuck
闭音节中的u /۸/ but,hunt,sun,duck,luck
闭音节中的o /۸/ son,once,colour,other,money
ou /۸/ rough,enough,touch,cousin,young
11.单元音 /ə:/ shirt hunt burn girl bird nurse work worm curse
er /ə:/ herd,verb,mercy
ir /ə:/ thirty,shirt,third,fir
ur /ə:/ turn,church,burn,nurse,curse
or /ə:/ word,work,world,worse
ear /ə:/ heard,earth,search
12.单元音 /ə/ ago about asleep above again among mother brother
许多元音在非重读章节中读成/ə/,所以/ə/的拼写形式多种多样.如：
about,sofa,doctor,colour,figure
13.双元音 /ei/ May pay way day same hay great gain pain spade
a /ei/ save,face,pale
ay /ei/ day,pay,may
ai /ei/ wait,fail,strait
ea /ei/ break,great
14.双元音 /əu/ no go so hole hope road home slow load foe soul
o /əu/ go,hello,no,open,over,joking,October
oa /əu/ coat,soap,boat,road,coast
ow /əu/ snow,throw,blow,show,know,window
15.双元音 /ai/ bye lie try eye cry die my five time mine like
开音节中的i /ai/ time,crime,rite,fine
igh /ai/ high,might,night,light,bright
y /ai/ cry,my,sky,fly,July,reply
ie /ai/ eye,dye,bye
16.双元音 /au/ how now cow out mouse down house brown found
ou /au/ about,around,found,sound,mouse
ow /au/ down,crowd,town,brown,now,how
17.双元音 /כi/ boy joy toy voice noise join coin oil soil toil
oi /כi/ oil,boil,join,coin,spoilt,voice,choice,noise
oy /כi/ toy,boy,enjoy,destroy,annoy,loyal,employer
18.双元音 /iə/ ear here fear hear dear pier tear near really idea
ear /iə/ ear,dear,hear,clear,beard
ea /iə/ idea,real,theatre
ere /iə/ here,mere,severe
eer /iə/ beer,queer,engineer
19.双元音 /eə/ care wear hair there fair careful various
are /eə/ care,share,fare,hare,careless
air /eə/ air,fair,chair,repair
20.双元音 /uə/ tour sure poor pure cure tourist
ur /uə/ cure,pure,fury