Voiced bilabial stop | |
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b | |
IPA number | 102 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | b |
Unicode (hex) | U+0062 |
X-SAMPA | b |
Kirshenbaum | b |
Braille | |
Sound | |
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The voiced bilabial stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨b⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial stop occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨b⟩ in boy. Many Indian languages, such as Hindustani, have a two-way contrast between breathy voiced /bʱ/ and plain /b/.
Features of the voiced bilabial stop: