The
open-mid back unrounded vowel, or
low-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of
vowel sound, used in some
spoken languages. Acoustically it is an
open-mid back-central unrounded vowel. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , graphically a rotated lowercase vee (called a
turned V, though it was created as a small-capital without the crossbar), and both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as either a wedge, a caret, or a hat. In transcriptions for
English, this symbol is commonly used for the
near-open central unrounded vowel, whereas in transcriptions for
Danish, it is used for the (somewhat mid-centralized)
open back rounded vowel.