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schwa /ʃwɑː/ noun [countableC] technical 1. SLa vowel typically heard in parts of a word that are spoken without stress1(4), such as the ‘a’ in ‘about’ 非重读央元音〔如about中的a〕
2. the sign (ə), used to represent the vowel schwa 标音符号/ə/