Something found on the eastern end of China?

• Sound in the middle of Italy?
• Phonetic symbol
• Pronunciation indicator
• Upside down e
• It sounds like "uh"
• Indistinct sound from school was curtailed
• The "e" sound in "tandem"
• Stress-free character seemingly calm, having walked away initially

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It is currently used in Abkhaz , Bashkir , Dungan , Itelmen , Kalmyk , Kazakh , Kurdish and Tatar . It was also used in Azeri , Karakalpak and Turkmen before those languages switched to the ...