Silverobama
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- Aug 8, 2010
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- Chinese
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- China
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- China
So the symbol /i:/ represents a sustained (long) vowel, as in sheep, not a schwa. (The two dots are meant to show that the vowel can be sustained.)
The schwa, represented by /ə/, is the short unstressed 'uh' sound, as in station and potato.
I thought it was the same as "diseases".