see|Appendix:Variations of "b"
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Translingual
Image:Latin B.png|thumb|The letter B

Letter
|page=B
|NATO=Bravo
|Morse=�···
|Character=B2
|Braille=â �

Etymology 1
Image:Greek uc beta.svg|left|50px|Greek letter Grek|� (B, �Beta�), the source for Latin letter B
From Gr. letter term|scGrek|�|trB||Beta.<br clear="left" />

Letter
infl|mul|letter|upper case||lower case|b

1. The second letter of the classical Latin alphabet and most variations thereof, including the English alphabet.

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

See also
qualifier|select forms with diacritics � � � � � �
qualifier|other scripts onym|el|scGrek|�|trB|glossBeta, onym|ru|scCyrl|�|trB|glossBe, onym|ru|scCyrl|�|trV|glossVe, onym|he|scHebr|�|trb|glossbeth, onym|ko|scHang|�|trb|glossbieup, onym||scHani|�|trb|glossb�o
For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b".
Appendix:Roman script

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

Symbol
infl|mul|symbol

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. element symbol The symbol for boron.
3. computing hexadecimal|Hexadecimal symbol for 11.

Category:Latin letters|B

English

Pronunciation
qualifier|phoneme IPA|/b/, SAMPA|/b/
qualifier|letter name IPA|/bi�/, SAMPA|/bi:/
audio|en-uk-b.ogg|Audio (UK)
:rhymes|i�

Letter
infl|en|letter|upper case||lower case|b

1. The letter term|bee|Bee, the second letter of the English alphabet.

Usage notes
In Mondern English, the letter term|B is sometimes silent, e.g. in term|climb|CLIMB, and term|debt|DEBT.

See also
Previous letter: A
Next letter: C

abbreviation
B

1. cricket the number of balls faced by a batsman

Noun
en-noun

1. A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
2. The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money, e.g. $2.8 B = $2,800,000,000.
3. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A

Category:Latin letters
Category:Symbols

Finnish

Noun
fi-noun

1. lubenter approbatur

Romanian

Pronunciation
qualifier|phoneme IPA|/b/
qualifier|letter name IPA|/be/|lang=ro

Letter
infl|ro|letter|cat=alphabet|upper case|lower case|b

1. The letter term|be|Be|lang=ro, the fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet.

See also
Previous letter: �
Next letter: C

an:B
zh-min-nan:B
br:B
de:B
el:B
fr:B
gl:B
ko:B
hr:B
ia:B
ku:B
la:B
lt:B
hu:B
ml:B
ms:B
ja:B
pl:B
pt:B
ro:B
qu:B
ru:B
simple:B
sk:B
sl:B
fi:B
sv:B
chr:B
tr:B
ur:B
zh:B

• 2007-12-10 23:52 - Rodasmith - "Other scripts" is not a language

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