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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Letter 1.2.1 Usage notes 1.2.2 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 Usage notes 2.3 See also 2.4 Abbreviation 2.5 Symbol 2.6 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Romanian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 6 Slovene 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Letter

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Modification of capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from Greek letter Β (B), “‘Beta’”).

[edit] Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

1. Lower case form of B. The second lower case letter of the classical Latin alphabet and most variations thereof, including the English alphabet.

[edit] Usage notes

The letter b is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (IPA: /b/), including Cyrillic б (b), “‘be’”), Zhuyin fuhao ㄅ, and Korean jamo ㅂ (b), “‘bieup’”).

[edit] See also

• (select forms with diacritics) ƀ ɓ ƃ ƅ ḃ ḅ ḇ
• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b".

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /b/, SAMPA: /b/
• (letter name) IPA: /biː/, SAMPA: /bi:/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
•  Audio (UK)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -iː

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b (lower case, upper case B)

1. Lower case form of B. The letter bee, the second letter of the English alphabet, usually representing the voiced bilabial plosive (IPA: /b/).

[edit] Usage notes

In Modern English, the letter b is silent in several words, including climb, and debt.

[edit] See also

• Previous English letter: a
• Next English letter: c

[edit] Abbreviation

b

1. breadth
2. (physics) barn

[edit] Symbol

1. latitude in the galactic coordinate system

[edit] See also

• ℓ - galactic longitude

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /beː/

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b (lower case, upper case B)

1. The second letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: a
• Next letter: c

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

b m. and f. inv.

1. See under B

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /be/

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b (lowercase, capital B)

1. The fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /b/. Preceded by â and followed by c.

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /be/

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b (lowercase, capital B)

1. The second letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by a and followed by c.