初学英语，大家要认识到英语元音字母只有a,e,i(y),o,u，英语中有48 音素。即20 个元音音素和28 个辅音。其中元音：发音响亮，是乐音;口腔中气流不收阻碍;是构成音节的主要音。辅音：发音不响亮，是噪音;口腔中气流受到阻碍;不是构成音节的主要音。下面沪江小编就带大家了解下英语20个元音的发音及单词示例，希望大家多多练习掌握。

元音发音及字母组合:

1) [i:] 字母组合:ee ea e ie ei (eo ey i)

three tree green sheep meet beef see seek

eat tea meat leave lead teacher team mean speak

clean please

he she me

piece receive ceiling

2) [ I ]发音字母i y e ui u a

sit picture it is list six mix fix fit pig big build

miss

myth many twenty happy dictionary

defect decide delicious

3) [ æ ] 发音字母a

bag hand and ant happy hat map mad bad black

back glad flag shall man

4) [e] 字母组合ea e a (ue,u,ie,ai,ei,ay)

head bread pleasure

elephant electric remember sell shell lesson better

bed desk hotel yes

many any

5) [ε:] 字母组合ir ur ear er or

girl shirt skirt thirty thirteen third bird

turn burn murder nurse turtle Thursday burger

learn earn earth heard

term her nerd serve

work worm work world

6) [ε] 字母组合er or ou ar o a e u

teacher leader remember player speaker farmer powder

doctor actor mayor author tractor

delicious gracious pleasure

familiar collar dollar

together tomorrow today shallop lesson Washington

control polite

around account ago elephant manta banana Canada

Japan china

men listen

famulus Saturday

7) [a:] 字母组合ar a

car farm card arm garden

fast class last glass plant aunt calm

8) [ ʌ ] 发音字母u o ou oo

up supper lunch fun gun hunt cup bus

come mother dose brother love above

trouble rough flourish

blood flood

9) [ɔ: ]字母组合al or au our ar

small wall talk tall hall ball call walk

short more lord horse for forty sport door floor store

author caught autumn

four mourn court bought

warm quarrel quarter

10) [ ɔ ] ([ɒ])发音字母o a ou

hot lost lot fox box mop hop loss collar not

want wash watch

11) [u:] 字母组合oo o u

food moon room gloom broom doom goose tooth

shoe do two

true truth blue full prude

12) [u] 字母组合oo ou u o

look good foot book wood

should could

put full bull pull push

woman wolf

13) [ei] 发音字母a ay ea ai ey

name cake late gate plane April

play say may way

great break

rain paint plain

they grey

14) [ai] 发音字母i y

bike fine find die nine light night high

my try fly eye

15) [au] 字母组合ou ow

house out flour ground account count sound loud

around mouse

flower down now cow how town

16) [εu] 发音字母o ow oa

home cold go no phone host ghost

know low below grow blow show flow

boat coat goal

17) [ ɔɪ ] 字母组合oy oi

boy toy joy

oil soil voice choice

18) [iε] 字母组合eer ear

beer deer

ear near

here fierce idea

19) [ ɛə ] ([eə])字母组合ear air ere

pear bear

chair air fair

there where

care

20) [uε] [auə]字母组合our ower

hour tour

flower shower