b

Etymology

Modification of capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from the Greek letter Β (B, “Beta”).

Letter

b (upper case B)

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

Gallery

• Letter styles
• 
  Capital and lowercase versions of B, in normal and italic type
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  Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur
• 
  Approximate form of Greek upper case beta, which was the source for both common variants of b' in uncial script

See also

• (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b".

Other representations of B:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Letter

b

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

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b lower case (upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be/

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /beː/

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

b (upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /be/

Letter

b (upper case B)

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

Noun

b m, f (invariable)

1. See under B

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]

Letter

B

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b (upper case B)

1. The fifth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kēratēḑ; A a, Ā ā, Ä ä, Ǟ ǟ, B b, D d, Ḑ ḑ, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, Ō ō, Ȯ ȯ, Ȱ ȱ, Õ õ, Ȭ ȭ, P p, R r, Ŗ ŗ, S s, Š š, T t, Ț ț, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /beː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /b/
• Homophone: be

Letter

b

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

  (file)

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b (Cyrillic spelling б)

1. The second letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet (gajica), written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b (upper 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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/
• (letter) IPA^(key): /bə/, /beː/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /bə/

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Noun

b m inan (genitive b-ja, nominative plural b-ji)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/, /β/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /be/

  • Audio (Spain)

    (file)

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /b/

Letter

b (upper case B)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) harp; A a, B b, Ç ç, D d, E e, Ä ä, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, Ž ž, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, W w, Y y, Ý ý, Z z

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɓe˧˧], [ɓe˧˧ ɓɔ˨˩], [ɓəː˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɓej˧˧], [ɓej˧˧ ɓɔ˦˩], [ɓəː˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɓej˧˧], [ɓej˧˧ ɓɔ˨˩], [ɓəː˨˩]
• Phonetic: bê, bê bò, bờ

Letter

b (lower case, upper case B)

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