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B

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TranslingualEdit

 
B U+0042, B
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
← A
[U+0041] 		Basic Latin C →
[U+0043]
Ｂ U+FF22, Ｂ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
← Ａ
[U+FF21] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｃ →
[U+FF23]

Etymology 1Edit

From the Ancient Greek letter Β (B, “Beta”).

LetterEdit

B (lower case b)

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

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 alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

  • (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}

SymbolEdit

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.

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur

  • B in uncial script

See alsoEdit

Other representations of B:

Further readingEdit

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /b/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /biː/
  • Audio (UK)
    		(file)
  • Audio (AU)
    		(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1Edit

 

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

LetterEdit

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.
Usage notesEdit

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 alsoEdit

NumberEdit

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 2Edit

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

AbbreviationEdit

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

Etymology 3Edit

  • (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

NounEdit

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 it's 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 alsoEdit
TranslationsEdit

Usage notesEdit

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.

SymbolEdit

B

  1. (computing) byte
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
  • (computing): b (bit)
TranslationsEdit

Proper nounEdit

B

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

AfarEdit

LetterEdit

B

  1. The second letter in the Afar alphabet.

See alsoEdit

American Sign LanguageEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • (thumb unopposed and flat against the radial edge of the palm, used in rapid fingerspelling of words like B-A-B-Y) FlatB

EtymologyEdit

 

From French Sign Language sign for the letter B.

ProductionEdit

This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:

LetterEdit

  (transliteration needed) (Stokoe B)

  1. The letter B

See alsoEdit

AzerbaijaniEdit

LetterEdit

B upper case (lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

BlagarEdit

LetterEdit

B

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

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

ChineseEdit

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

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B

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

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

B

  1. (music) B flat

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

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EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

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FinnishEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

Usage notesEdit

  • Used only in loanwords.

See alsoEdit

AbbreviationEdit

B

  1. lubenter approbatur

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

B n (genitive B, no plural)

  1. (music) B-flat

DeclensionEdit

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 alsoEdit

  • H (“B (musical note)”)

German Sign LanguageEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "B".

ProductionEdit

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

  • Posture the dominant hand in the “B” shape.

LetterEdit

  (transliteration needed)

  1. the letter B

IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

ItalianEdit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B m or f (lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

LatvianEdit

 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

 
B

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

MalayEdit

 
Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

B

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

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MalteseEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

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PortugueseEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

  1. The letter be, the fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet.

See alsoEdit

SaanichEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B

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

See alsoEdit

Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B (lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

SloveneEdit

 
Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl

LetterEdit

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 alsoEdit

SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

B upper case (lower case b)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

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TurkishEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

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VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (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

LetterEdit

B (lower case b)

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

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ZuluEdit

LetterEdit

B (upper case, lower case b)

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

See alsoEdit

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