The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is , called "ram's horn." This symbol is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, , which has a descender, but some texts use this symbol for the voiced velar fricative.
Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was , sometimes called "baby gamma", which has a flat top; this symbol was in turn derived from and replaced the inverted small capital A, , that represented the sound before the 1928 revision to the IPA. The symbol was again revised to be , "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma .
Unicode provides , but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is . As of Unicode , there exists a capital ram's horn at .