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