| Ipa Symbol: | b |
| Ipa Number: | 102 |
| Decimal: | 98 |
| Xsampa: | b |
| Braille: | b |
| X-Sampa: | b |
The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|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 obey pronounced as /[oʊˈbeɪ]/ (oU"beI).
Features of the voiced bilabial stop:
| IPA | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /b/ | plain b | |
| pronounced as /bʷ/ | labialised | |
| pronounced as /b̜ʷ/ | semi-labialised | |
| pronounced as /b̹ʷ/ | strongly labialised | |
| pronounced as /bʲ/ | palatalised | |
| pronounced as /bʱ/ | breathy voiced | |
| pronounced as /bˠ/ | velarised |
| Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|'''б'''гъу]] / | 'nine' | |||||
| Albanian: bletë | pronounced as /['bletə]/ | 'bee' | ||||
| Standard | Arabic: [[Arabic alphabet|باب]]|rtl=yes / / | pronounced as /[baːb]/ | 'door' | See Arabic phonology | ||
| Assyrian | Syriac: [[Syriac alphabet|ܒܒܐ]] | pronounced as /[baːba]/] | 'father' | |||
| Armenian | Eastern | Armenian: [[Armenian alphabet|'''բ'''արի]]/ | 'kind' | |||
| Basa: [[Basque alphabet|'''b'''ero]] | pronounced as /[beɾo]/ | 'hot' | ||||
| Bengali: [[Bengali alphabet|'''ব'''লো]] / | pronounced as /[bɔlo]/ | 'say!' | Contrasts with aspirated form. See Bengali phonology | |||
| Catalan; Valencian: [[Catalan orthography|'''b'''ell]] | pronounced as /[ˈbeʎ]/ | 'beautiful' | See Catalan phonology | |||
| Chechen: [[Cyrillic script|'''б'''орз]] / Chechen: '''b'''orz | pronounced as /[borz]/ | 'wolf' | ||||
| Czech: [[Czech orthography|'''b'''ota]] | pronounced as /[ˈbota]/ | 'boot' | See Czech phonology | |||
| Standard | Danish: [[Danish alphabet|lø'''b'''er]] | pronounced as /[ˈløːbɐ]/ | 'runner' | Only partially voiced; possible allophone of pronounced as //b// in the intervocalic position. More often voiceless pronounced as /link/. See Danish phonology | ||
| Dutch; Flemish: [[Dutch orthography|'''b'''oer]] | pronounced as /[buːr]/ | 'farmer' | See Dutch phonology | |||
| 'aback' | See English phonology | |||||
| Esperanto: [[Esperanto orthography|'''b'''atalo]] | pronounced as /[baˈtalo]/ | 'war' | See Esperanto phonology | |||
| Filipino; Pilipino: [[Filipino alphabet|'''b'''uto]] | pronounced as /[buto]/ | 'bone' | ||||
| French: [[French orthography|'''b'''oue]] | pronounced as /[bu]/ | 'mud' | See French phonology | |||
| Georgian: [[Georgian alphabet|'''ბ'''ავშვი]] / | pronounced as /[ˈbavʃvi]/ | 'child' | ||||
| German: [[German orthography|a'''b'''er]] | 'but' | See Standard German phonology | ||||
| pronounced as /[ˈbo̞xa]/ | 'reek' | See Modern Greek phonology | ||||
| Gujarati: [[Gujarati alphabet|'''બ'''ક્રી]] / | pronounced as /[bəkri]/ | 'goat' | See Gujarati phonology | |||
| Hebrew: [[Hebrew alphabet|'''ב'''ית]]|rtl=yes / | pronounced as /[bajit]/ | 'house' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |||
| Hindustani | Hindi: [[Devanāgarī|बाल]] / | pronounced as /[bäːl]/ | 'hair' | Contrasts with aspirated version pronounced as //bʱ//. See Hindi-Urdu phonology | ||
| Urdu | Urdu: [[nasta'liq|بال]]|rtl=yes / | |||||
| Hungarian: [[Hungarian orthography|'''b'''a'''b'''a]] | pronounced as /[ˈbɒbɒ]/ | 'baby' | See Hungarian phonology | |||
| Italian: [[Italian alphabet|'''b'''ile]] | pronounced as /[ˈbile]/ | 'rage' | See Italian phonology | |||
| Japanese: [[kanji|番]] / Japanese: [[Romanization of Japanese|'''b'''an]] | pronounced as /[baɴ]/ | '(one's) turn' | See Japanese phonology | |||
| Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|'''б'''гъуы]]/bg"uy | 'nine' | |||||
| Korean: [[Hangul|지붕]] / Korean: [[Romanization of Korean|ji'''b'''ung]] | pronounced as /[t͡ɕibuŋ]/ | 'roof' | See Korean phonology | |||
| Kurdish | Northern | Kurdish: [[Kurdish alphabets|'''b'''av]] | pronounced as /[bɑːv]/ | 'father' | See Kurdish phonology | |
| Central | Kurdish: [[Kurdish alphabets|باوک]]/ | pronounced as /[bɑːwk]/ | ||||
| Southern | Kurdish: [[Kurdish alphabets|باوگ]]/ | pronounced as /[bɑːwɨg]/ | ||||
| Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch: ge'''b'''losen | pronounced as /[ɡ̊əˈbloːzən]/ | 'blown' | More often voiceless pronounced as /link/. See Luxembourgish phonology | |||
| Macedonian: [[Macedonian alphabet|у'''б'''ав]]/Macedonian: ubav | pronounced as /[ˈubav]/ | 'beautiful' | See Macedonian phonology | |||
| Malay: [[Malay alphabet|'''b'''aru]] | pronounced as /[bäru]/ | 'new' | ||||
| Malayalam: [[Maltese alphabet|għat'''b'''a]] | pronounced as /[aːtˈba]/ | 'threshold' | ||||
| Marathi: [[Devanagari|'''ब'''टाटा]] / | pronounced as /[bəˈʈaːʈaː]/ | 'potato' | See Marathi phonology | |||
| [[Devanagari|'''बा'''टो]] / | pronounced as /[bäʈo]/ | 'path' | See Nepali phonology | |||
| Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|'''b'''ål]] | pronounced as /[ˈbɔːl]/ | 'bonfire' | See Norwegian phonology | |||
| Oriya: [[Odia script|'''ବା'''ର]]/ | pronounced as /[bärɔ]/ | 'twelve' | Contrasts with aspirated form. | |||
| Persian: [[Persian orthography|خو'''ب''']]|rtl=yes/ xub | pronounced as /[xub]/ | 'good' | See Persian phonology | |||
| pi'''b'''aóí | pronounced as /[ˈpìbàóí̯]/ | 'parent' | ||||
| Polish: [[Polish orthography|'''b'''as]] | 'bass' | See Polish phonology | ||||
| Portuguese: [[Portuguese orthography|'''b'''ato]] | pronounced as /[ˈbatu]/ | 'I strike' | See Portuguese phonology | |||
| Panjabi; Punjabi: [[Gurmukhi|ਬਿੱਲੀ]]/ | pronounced as /[bɪlːi]/ | 'cat' | ||||
| Romanian[1] | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[Romanian alphabet|'''b'''ou]] | pronounced as /[bow]/ | 'bull' | See Romanian phonology. | ||
| Russian: [[Russian orthography|ры'''б'''а]] / | pronounced as /[ˈrɨbə]/ | 'fish' | Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology | |||
| [[Serbian Cyrillic alphabet|'''б'''иће]] / [[Gaj's Latin alphabet|'''b'''iće]] | pronounced as /[bǐːt͡ɕě]/ | 'being' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |||
| Slovak: [[Slovak alphabet|'''b'''yť]] | pronounced as /[bi̞c]/ | 'to be' | ||||
| Slovene | Slovenian: [[Slovene orthography|'''b'''iti]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ˈbìːt̪í]/ | 'to be' | |||
| Southern Min | [[Chinese characters|閩]] / | pronounced as /[ban]/ | 'Fujian province' | Only in colloquial speech. | ||
| Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|in'''v'''ertir]] | pronounced as /[ĩmbe̞ɾˈt̪iɾ]/ | 'to invest' | See Spanish phonology | |||
| Swedish: [[Swedish alphabet|'''b'''ra]] | pronounced as /[ˈbɾɑː]/ | 'good' | May be an approximant in casual speech. See Swedish phonology | |||
| Telugu: [[Telugu script|'''బ'''డి]] | pronounced as / [badi]/ | 'school' | Contrasts with aspirated form. Aspirated form is articulated as breathy consonant. | |||
| / | pronounced as /[bam.bat̚]/ | 'therapy' | See Thai phonology | |||
| Turkish: [[Turkish alphabet|'''b'''ulut]] | pronounced as /[ˈbuɫut̪]/ | 'cloud' | See Turkish phonology | |||
| '''b'''ai|italic=yes | pronounced as /[bai]/ | 'to come' | ||||
| Ukrainian: [[Ukrainian alphabet|'''б'''рат]] / | pronounced as /[brɑt̪]/ | 'brother' | See Ukrainian phonology | |||
| Welsh | Welsh: ma'''b''' | pronounced as /[mɑːb]/ | 'son' | See Welsh phonology | ||
| West Frisian | Western Frisian: '''b'''ak''' | pronounced as /[bak]/ | 'tray' | |||
| Wu | [[Chinese characters|皮]] / | pronounced as /[bi]/ | 'skin' | |||
| Xiang | [[Chinese characters|浮]] / | pronounced as /[bau]/ | 'to float' | |||
| Sichuan Yi; Nuosu: [[Yi script|ꁧ]] / Sichuan Yi; Nuosu: '''bb'''o | pronounced as /[bo˧]/ | 'mountain' | ||||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan | '''b'''ald | pronounced as /[bald]/ | 'few' | ||
pronounced as /navigation/