A restaurant sign in Japan showing confusion associated with /r/ and /l/ sounds in English This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Japanese has one liquid phoneme /r/, realized usually as an apico-