b

Etymology
Modification of capital letter by dropping its upper loop, from the Greek letter.

Pronunciation

 * A voiced bilabial stop is made with the lips alone, by a complete closure cutting off all exit of breath from the mouth, but with accompanying sonant vibrations of the vocal chords, the current of air necessary to produce this being driven from the lungs into the closed cavity of the mouth. The corresponding voiceless stop is.
 * A voiced bilabial stop is made with the lips alone, by a complete closure cutting off all exit of breath from the mouth, but with accompanying sonant vibrations of the vocal chords, the current of air necessary to produce this being driven from the lungs into the closed cavity of the mouth. The corresponding voiceless stop is.

Letter

 * 1) The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiced bilabial plosive.
 * 2)  -onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), -release (e.g. ⟨ɡᵇ⟩ for ), -coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * 3)  A bottom quark.

Usage notes
The letter is used in several romanization systems to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced, including Cyrillic , Zhuyin fuhao ㄅ, and Korean jamo.

Pronunciation

 * (see also Pronunciation under Translingual)

Usage notes
In Modern English, the letter is sometimes silent, as when final after, in , , , , , and in a few other cases, such as  and. In most of these cases b is a modern graphic insertion, and was never pronounced (in the English forms); see limb, thumb, debt, and doubt.

Symbol

 * 1)  latitude in the galactic coordinate system
 * 2)  barn
 * 3)  bit
 * 4)  bye
 * 5)  big

Derived terms

 * , Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb, Eb
 * , b/s

Translations

 * Esperanto:

Etymology 3
Abbreviations.

Symbol

 * 1)  a single consonant /b/ in a word, or a dominant /b/ in a cluster.
 * 2)  the sequence /biː/

Pronunciation

 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :

Noun

 * 1) The letter b
 * 2)  B-flat (note)

Declension
(music):

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Etymology 2
German musical notation.

Noun

 * 1)  B flat

Usage notes

 * Finnish uses the German system; is written as.
 * Finnish uses the German system; is written as.

Letter

 * 1)   B-flat, B♭ the 11th note of the C chromatic scale
 * 1)   B-flat, B♭ the 11th note of the C chromatic scale

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Letter

 * 1) The third letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiced bilabial stop.

Etymology
Modification of the capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from, from , from , from the , from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from , representing the plan of a house.

Noun

 * 1) the letter, the second letter of the Norwegian alphabet
 * 2)  the tone h lowered by half a step
 * 3)  a B-flat
 * 4)  symbol for
 * 1)  a B-flat
 * 2)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for

Letter

 * 1)   B-flat
 * 1)   B-flat

Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
From Gay's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from Latin , modification of capital letter  by dropping its upper loop, which is derived from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * b at the beginning of words mutates to in a, to  in a  and is unchanged by , for example with the word :

Pronunciation

 * (mb is pronounced )