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Added 10 October 2026

b

/b/ letter

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The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Transliterates the Cyrillic letter б.

symbol

A voiced bilabial plosive.
[b]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [b]-release (e.g. ⟨ɡᵇ⟩ for [ɡ͡b]), [b]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [b].
A bottom quark.

letter

The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

adjective

Abbreviation of born.

Origin

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