Voiced bilabial plosive

Voiced bilabial plosive
b
IPA number102
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Entity (decimal)b
Unicode (hex)U+0062
X-SAMPAb
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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 ⟨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 [oʊˈbeɪ].

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