国际音标严格规定以“一符一音”为原则,即“一个音素一个符号,一个符号一个音素”,这也是读好英语单词必备的发音方法.简单地说,一个音标都对应了一个特定的字母,你记住了这个音标对应的字母,就记住了这个单词.下面是详细说明,希望能对你有所帮助.
以下音标字符与国际音标一致（1988年后EPD版本）.
（一）辅音部分（28个）
[ p ] pot pig put people piano potato
[ b ] book bag big job bear but brother
[ t ] tooth teacher tea table task tell
[ d ] dog dig duck dad double day
[ k ] cake keep cat cup cap
[ g ] grandpa girl green good god
[ f ] father fat foot full fit
[ v ] five very vent drive vary
[ s ] small study bus yes must
[ z ] jazz zoo zero clothes zig
[ θ ] eighth forth tenth eleventh ninth
[ δ ] those these that this there
[ ʃ ] cash bush shake shoe ship
[ ʒ ] measure pleasure leisure
[ tʃ ] chair chicken lunch change
[ dʒ ] jack job joke
[ tr ] tree truck train
[ dr ] dress drink drain
[ ts ] students coats cats
[ dz ] beds odds codes
[ m ] mum moon morning
[ n ] moon nut needle
[ ŋ ] ink link ring
[ h ] hello hurry hey
[ l ] look leg lake
[ r ] rain radio room
[ w ] window wake week
[ j ] yellow yes you
(二） 单元音(12个)：
[ e ] yes yellow bed pen
[ æ ] cat bad dad
[ a:] are car far
[ ʌ ] cut nut but mother color
[ ɔ ] pot got dog
[ ɔ:] call tall or
[ ə:]curtain further fur
[ ɝ ]（实为类似3的字符） mother farmer doctor
[ i ] ink big pig
[ i:] jeep tea eat
[ u ] good book look cook
[ u:] cool zoo tool cooler
（三） 双元音（8个）：
[ ei ] age day make date
[ ai ] ice bike nice kite
[ ɔi ]toy oil boy
[ əu ] old joke gold
[ au ] cloud mouth cow
[ eə ] air fair chair
[ iə ] ear near year
[ uə] cure dure pure
