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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A voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "b" sound in "obey". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨b⟩.