Voiceless bilabial plosive

Voiceless bilabial plosive
p
IPA number101
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Entity (decimal)p
Unicode (hex)U+0070
X-SAMPAp
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A voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "p" sound in "spit". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨p⟩.