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Labels: John B, Moscow, Photos, Pirate Station Moscow, Podcast, Radio Record, Russia ... Quick Blog from the airport! My first HD video! John B imposters! ...john-b.blogspot.com/For technical reasons, B# redirects here. For the musical note, see B♯ (musical note)
B (b) is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English ( ) is spelled bee, plural bees.
History
The letter B might have started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. By 1050 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the beth.
Typography
The modern lowercase letter b derives from later Roman times, when scribes began omitting the upper loop of the capital.
The letter B is often confused with the visually similar German ß which stands for ss.
Usage
In English and most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the letter b denotes the voiced bilabial plosive (IPAEng: b), as in bib. In English it is sometimes silent, as in debt or comb (however the 'b' in 'comb' was actually pronounced at one time). In Estonian, Icelandic, and in Chinese transcription, B is not voiced, but is still contrasted to P, which is geminated /pp/ in Estonian and aspirated /pʰ/ in Chinese and Icelandic. In Fijian B is prenasalized IPA2: mb, whereas in Zulu and Xhosa it is implosive IPA2: ɓ, in contrast to the digraph Bh which represents IPA2: b.
Finnish uses the letter b only for loanwords.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA, letter /b/ denotes the voiced bilabial plosive. Variants of the letter b denote related bilabial consonants, like the voiced bilabial implosive and the bilabial trill. In X-SAMPA, capital B denotes the voiced bilabial fricative.
B is also a musical note.
/b/ is also a board on 4chan.
In Contracted (grade 2) English braille, b stands for "but" when in isolation.
Codes for computing
In Unicode the capital B is codepoint U+0042 and the lower case b is U+0062.
The ASCII code for capital B is 66 and for lower case b is 98; or in binary 01000010 and 01100010, respectively.
The EBCDIC code for capital B is 194 and for lowercase b is 130.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "B" and "b" for upper and lower case, respectively.
See also
- В, в : Ve (Cyrillic)
- Б, б: Be (Cyrillic)
- The Semitic letter Bet
- B postcode area (United Kingdom)
