B

See also: Appendix:Variations of "b"

B U+0042, B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B ← A [U+0041] Basic Latin C → [U+0043]

Character variations

Ｂ U+FF22, Ｂ FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B ← Ａ [U+FF21] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｃ → [U+FF23]

𝕭 U+1D56D, 𝕭 MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR CAPITAL B ← 𝕬 [U+1D56C] Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 𝕮 → [U+1D56E]

Translingual

Etymology 1

From the Etruscan letter 𐌁 (b, “be”), from the Ancient Greek letter Β (B, “beta”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤁‎ (b, “bet”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓉐.

Letter

B (lower case b)

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

Usage notes

The letter B (usually its lower case form b) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (/b/).

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter B):  Ḃḃ  Ḅḅ  Ḇḇ  Ƀƀ  Ɓɓ  Ƃƃ  ᵬ  ᶀ  ʙ  Ｂｂ  ȸ  ℔  Ꞗꞗ
• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b".
• (other scripts) Β (B, “Beta”), Б (B, “Be”), В (V, “Ve”), ב‎ (b, “beth”)

Etymology 2

• (blood type): from antigen B
• (symbol for boron): abbreviation of boron
• (hexadecimal 11): The eleventh item from the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

Symbol

B

1. A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. They can receive blood from type B or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or A.
2. (chemistry) The chemical element boron.
3. Eleven, especially used in the base more than ten, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.

   The equivalent numbers of decimal 1611 are duodecimal B23, hexadecimal 64B, vigesimal 40B and so on.

4. (biochemistry) As an IUPAC code for amino acids, aspartic acid or asparagine.
5. (physics) A magnetic flux density.

Gallery

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of B, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur

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  B in uncial script

See also

Other representations of B:

NATO phonetic: Bravo Morse code: –··· Braille: ⠃ ASL Manual: B

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Further reading

• B on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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English

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /biː/

• Audio (UK)

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• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (B, “beorc”).

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b, plural Bs or B's)

1. The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

Usage notes

In Modern English, the letter B is sometimes silent, e.g. in climb, and debt.

Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:

A’s are difficult to achieve in this class.

Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:

She gets straight As in school.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Number

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

• (cricket, balls): abbreviation of balls
• (billion): abbreviation of billion
• (black): abbreviation of black

Noun

B

1. (cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman
2. The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money

   $2.8 B — “two point eight billion dollars” (i.e., $2,800,000,000)

3. (Britain) The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
4. (chess) Bishop
5. (music) Bass.
6. (immunology) A B cell.
   • 2020 May 2, “Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     Mind your Bs and Ts
     […] And if the combined efforts of macrophages, b cells and t cells are sufficient, the pathogen will be beaten back and eventually cleared from the body.

Etymology 3

• (personality type): from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type
• (academic grade): from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet

Noun

B (plural Bs)

1. A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
2. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
3. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.

   The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.

4. Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
5. (music) The seventh note in the C major scale.

See also

• B-side
• B story
• plan B

Translations

musical note

• Czech: H (cs)
• Faroese: H n
• Finnish: h (fi)

• French: si (fr) m
• German: H (de) n

Usage notes

Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:

A’s are difficult to achieve in this class.

Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:

She gets straight As in school.

Symbol

B

1. (computing) byte

Derived terms

• (computing): Bps, B/s
• (computing): kB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB

See also

• (computing): b (bit)

Translations

byte

• Finnish: t (fi) (tavu)
• French: o (fr) (octet)

Proper noun

B

2. (computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived.

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Afar

Letter

B

1. The second letter in the Afar alphabet.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

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Azerbaijani

Letter

B upper case (lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) hərf; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, Ə ə, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, X x, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, Q q, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be/

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Basque alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Blagar

Letter

B

1. The second letter of the Blagar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ng ng, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Sy sy, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be/

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Catalan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lletra; A a, À à, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, É é, È è, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, Ï ï, J j, K k, L l (L·L l·l), M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, Ò ò, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Chinese

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of B – see 屄 (“vulva or/and vagina; cunt; etc.”). (This character, B, is a variant form of 屄.)

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bi¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bi¹
    • Yale: bī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piː⁵⁵/

Noun

B

1. (Cantonese) baby (Classifier: 個／个)

   喂，睇住個B啊！ / 喂，睇住个B啊！ [Cantonese]  ―  wai², tai² zyu⁶ go³ bi¹ aa³! [Jyutping]  ―  Hey, look after the baby!

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 嬰兒 (“baby; infant”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		嬰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		嬰兒, 嬰孩
Mandarin	Beijing	嬰孩兒
	Taiwan	嬰兒, 寶寶
	Luoyang	娃娃
	Wanrong	胎娃
	Xuzhou	小毛娃兒
	Wuhan	毛頭伢, 毛頭, 毛毛伢, 毛毛, 伢伢
	Chengdu	奶娃兒, 奶娃子, 奶娃娃
	Guiyang	嫩娃娃
	Kunming	小每每, 小咕奶兒
	Nanjing	小毛娃, 毛娃, 小寶寶
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蘇蝦仔, 𤘅孲仔, BB仔, 阿蝦, 臊妹
	Hong Kong	蘇蝦仔, 蘇蝦, 𤘅孲仔, BB仔, BB, B, 蝦仔
	Dongguan	蘇蝦仔, BB, BB仔
	Kuala Lumpur	蘇蝦仔, BB仔
Gan	Nanchang	毛伢子
	Lichuan	毛伢崽
	Pingxiang	毛毛仔
Hakka	Meixian	孲𤘅仔
	Xingning	孲𤘅哩
	Huidong (Daling)	孲𤘅仔
	Qujiang	孲𤘅子
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	嫩仔
	Changting	孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子
	Pingyu	蝦毛子
	Wuping	孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子
	Liancheng	孲𤘅子
	Yudu	伢人子, 毛伢子
	Ruijin	孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子
	Shicheng	赤伢
	Shangyou	伢毛子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	孲𤘅仔
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	孲𤘅仔
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	孲𤘅, 孲𤘅仔
	Dongshi (Dabu)	孲𤘅
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	孲𤘅仔, 孲𤘅
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	阿佅, 嬰仔
Huizhou	Jixi	細妹
Jin	Taiyuan	小娃娃
	Xinzhou	小娃子
Min Bei	Jian'ou	𤘅仔
Min Dong	Fuzhou	兒囝囝
Min Nan	Xiamen	嬰仔
	Quanzhou	嬰仔
	Zhangzhou	嬰仔, 嬰哥, 紅嬰仔, 紅嬰
	Taipei	嬰仔
	Kaohsiung	紅嬰仔
	Tainan	紅嬰仔
	Taichung	紅嬰仔
	Hsinchu	紅嬰仔
	Lukang	紅嬰仔
	Sanxia	紅嬰
	Yilan	紅嬰仔
	Kinmen	嬰仔
	Philippines (Manila Hokkien)	嬰仔
	Shantou	孥囝
	Leizhou	儂
	Haikou	囝, 儂 intimate
Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	娃娃
Wu	Shanghai	小毛頭, 小小囡, 毛毛頭
	Suzhou	小毛頭, 毛毛頭, 血泡泡
	Hangzhou	小毛頭兒, 小毛頭, 毛頭兒, 毛毛頭
	Wenzhou	娒兒, 娒娒兒
	Chongming	小小囡
	Danyang	小毛毛, 毛毛
	Jinhua	王男
	Ningbo	奶花, 小毛頭, 毛頭奶花, 孲𤘅, 抱手
Xiang	Changsha	毛毛, 毛毛它, 毛它
	Loudi	毛毛唧, 毛毛

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beː/

Letter

B

1. B (the 2nd letter in the Czech alphabet)

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, E e, É é, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, P p, Q q, R r, Ř ř, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, Ů ů, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Noun

B

1. (music) B flat

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beː/

• Audio

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Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a (Á á, Ä ä), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, Ë ë), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ï ï, IJ ij), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ö ö), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /bo/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /b/

• Audio

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Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called bo and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

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Estonian

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) täht; A a, B b (C c), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p (Q q), R r, S s, Š š, Z z, Ž ž, T t, U u, V v (W w), Õ õ, Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü (X x, Y y)

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Finnish

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

Usage notes

• Used only in loanwords.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kirjain; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s (Š š), T t, U u, V v (W w), X x, Y y, Z z (Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö

Noun

B

1. Abbreviation of lubenter approbatur.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beː/

• Audio

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Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the German alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) Buchstabe; A a (Ä ä), B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ö ö), P p, Q q, R r, S s (ẞ ß), T t, U u (Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Noun

B n (genitive B, no plural)

1. (music) B-flat

Declension

Declension of B (uncountable)

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	B
genitive	eines	des	B
dative	einem	dem	B
accusative	ein	das	B

See also

• H (“B (musical note)”)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ ˈb]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ ˈbeː]

• Audio

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Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called bé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	B	B-k
accusative	B-t	B-ket
dative	B-nek	B-knek
instrumental	B-vel	B-kkel
causal-final	B-ért	B-kért
translative	B-vé	B-kké
terminative	B-ig	B-kig
essive-formal	B-ként	B-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	B-ben	B-kben
superessive	B-n	B-ken
adessive	B-nél	B-knél
illative	B-be	B-kbe
sublative	B-re	B-kre
allative	B-hez	B-khez
elative	B-ből	B-kből
delative	B-ről	B-kről
ablative	B-től	B-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	B-é	B-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	B-éi	B-kéi

Possessive forms of B
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	B-m	B-im
2nd person sing.	B-d	B-id
3rd person sing.	B-je	B-i
1st person plural	B-nk	B-ink
2nd person plural	B-tek	B-itek
3rd person plural	B-jük	B-ik

Derived terms

• B-dúr

See also

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z, Zs zs

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

B (lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Italian

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /bi/
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

B m or f (lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Italian alphabet, called bi and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latvian

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b]

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

B

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The third letter of the Latvian alphabet, called bē and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [bi]
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA^(key): [b]
• (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA^(key): [p̚]

Letter

B

1. The second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Maltese

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z

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Portuguese

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á, À à,  â, àã), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, Ê ê), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ô ô, Õ õ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b/

Etymology 1

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called be or bî and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ă ă,  â, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Πî, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Ș ș, T t, Ț ț, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Etymology 2

Proper noun

B

1. Abbreviation of București, the capital city of Romania.

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Saanich

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʼ/

Letter

B

1. The fourth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A, Á, Ⱥ, B, C, Ć, Ȼ, D, E, H, I, Í, J, K, Ꝁ, Ꝃ, ₭, Ḵ, Ḱ, L, Ƚ, M, N, Ṉ, O, P, Q, S, Ś, T, Ⱦ, Ṯ, Ŧ, U, W, W̲, X, X̲, Y, Z, s, ,

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

B (lower case b)

1. The third letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ

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Slovene

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Slovene alphabet, called b or be and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) čŕka; A a, B b, C c, Č č, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /b/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ba/

Letter

B upper case (lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Somali alphabet, called ba and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The second letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows the Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by ' and followed by T.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ', B b, T t, J j, X x, Kh kh, D d, R r, S s, Sh sh, Dh dh, C c, G g, F f, Q q, K k, L l, M m, N n, W w, H h, Y y, A a, E e, I i, O o, U u

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Spanish

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Spanish alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Turkish

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Turkish alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) harf; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓe˧˧], [ʔɓe˧˧ ʔɓɔ˨˩], [ʔɓəː˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ ʔɓɔ˦˩], [ʔɓəː˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ ʔɓɔ˨˩], [ʔɓəː˨˩]
• Phonetic: bê, bê bò, bờ

Letter

B (lower case b)

1. The fourth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called bê, bê bò, or bờ and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ cái; A a (À à, Ả ả, àã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ),  â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /biː/
  • (informal) IPA^(key): /bə/

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Welsh alphabet, called bi and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by A and followed by C.

Mutation

• B at the beginning of words mutates to F in a soft mutation, to M in a nasal mutation and is unchanged by aspirate mutation, for example with the word Bangor (“Bangor”):

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Bangor	Fangor	Mangor	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) llythyren; A a (Á á, À à,  â, Ä ä), B b, C c, Ch ch, D d, Dd dd, E e (É é, È è, Ê ê, Ë ë), F f, Ff ff, G g, Ng ng, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, Ï ï), J j, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ô ô, Ö ö), P p, Ph ph, R r, Rh rh, S s, T t, Th th, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Û û, Ü ü), W w (Ẃ ẃ, Ẁ ẁ, Ŵ ŵ, Ẅ ẅ), Y y (Ý ý, Ỳ ỳ, Ŷ ŷ, Ÿ ÿ)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “B”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Zulu

Letter

B (upper case, lower case b)

1. The second letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z