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2d alphabetic character of the Latin alphabet

B
B b
(See below)

Usage
Writing system	Latin script English alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet
Type	Alphabetic
Linguistic communication of origin	Latin language
Phonetic usage	[b] [p] [ɓ] (Adapted variations)
Unicode codepoint	`U+0042, U+0062`
Alphabetical position	two Numerical value: two
History
Development	Β β 𐌁 B b
Time period	unknown to nowadays
Descendants	♭ ␢ ฿
Sisters	Б В Բ բ (בּ ב ب ܒ)
Variations	(Run into below)
Other
Other messages commonly used with	bv bh bp bm bf
Associated numbers	2
This commodity contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Assist:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet. Its proper noun in English is bee (pronounced ), plural bees.^[ane] ^[two] It represents the voiced bilabial end in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants.

History

Egyptian Pr	Phoenician bēt	Etruscan B	Greek beta	Latin B

One-time English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc ⟨ ᛒ ⟩, meaning "birch". Beorc dates to at to the lowest degree the second-century Elder Futhark, which is now thought to take derived from the One-time Italic alphabets' ⟨ 𐌁 ⟩ either directly or via Latin ⟨⟩.

The uncial ⟨⟩ and half-uncial ⟨⟩ introduced past the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' ⟨⟩. These Sometime English language Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned nether King Canute in the early on 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨ ⟩. Effectually 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper- and lower-case B taking separate meanings. Post-obit the appearance of printing in the 15th century, Holy Roman Empire (Federal republic of germany) and Scandinavia continued to use forms of blackletter (particularly Fraktur), while England eventually adopted the humanist and antiqua scripts developed in Renaissance Italia from a combination of Roman inscriptions and Carolingian texts. The present forms of the English cursive B were developed by the 17th century.

The Roman ⟨B⟩ derived from the Greek capital letter beta ⟨ Β ⟩ via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician alphabetic character bēt ⟨ 𐤁 ⟩.^[3] The Egyptian hieroglyph for the consonant /b/ had been an image of a pes and dogie ⟨ ⟩,^[4] simply bēt (Phoenician for "house") was a modified form of a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ⟨ ⟩ probably adapted from the carve up hieroglyph Pr ⟨ ⟩ significant "house".^[5] ^[6] The Hebrew alphabetic character beth ⟨ ב ⟩ is a separate evolution of the Phoenician letter.^[three]

By Byzantine times, the Greek alphabetic character ⟨ Β ⟩ came to be pronounced /v/,^[3] so that information technology is known in modern Greek as víta (still written βήτα ). The Cyrillic alphabetic character ve ⟨ В ⟩ represents the same sound, so a modified form known as be ⟨ Б ⟩ was developed to represent the Slavic languages' /b/.^[3] (Modern Greek continues to lack a letter for the voiced bilabial plosive and transliterates such sounds from other languages using the digraph/consonant cluster ⟨ μπ ⟩, mp.)

Use in writing systems

English

In English, ⟨b⟩ denotes the voiced bilabial stop /b/, as in bib. In English, information technology is sometimes silent. This occurs specially in words ending in ⟨mb⟩, such equally lamb and bomb, some of which originally had a /b/ sound, while some had the letter ⟨b⟩ added by illustration (see Phonological history of English consonant clusters). The ⟨b⟩ in debt, doubt, subtle, and related words was added in the 16th century as an etymological spelling, intended to make the words more like their Latin originals (debitum, dubito, subtilis).

Equally /b/ is 1 of the sounds subject field to Grimm's Constabulary, words which have ⟨b⟩ in English and other Germanic languages may find their cognates in other Indo-European languages appearing with ⟨bh⟩, ⟨p⟩, ⟨f⟩ or ⟨φ⟩ instead.^[3] For example, compare the diverse cognates of the word brother. It is the seventh least ofttimes used letter in the English language (later Five, M, J, 10, Q, and Z), with a frequency of well-nigh one.5% in words.

Other languages

Many other languages besides English use ⟨b⟩ to represent a voiced bilabial cease.

In Estonian, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic and Mandarin Chinese Pinyin, ⟨b⟩ does not denote a voiced consonant. Instead, it represents a voiceless /p/ that contrasts with either a geminated /p:/ (in Estonian) or an aspirated /p^h/ (in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic and Pinyin) represented by ⟨p⟩. In Fijian ⟨b⟩ represents a prenasalised /mb/, whereas in Zulu and Xhosa information technology represents an implosive /ɓ/, in contrast to the digraph ⟨bh⟩ which represents /b/. Finnish uses ⟨b⟩ only in loanwords.

Phonetic transcription

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [b] is used to represent the voiced bilabial terminate telephone. In phonological transcription systems for specific languages, /b/ may be used to represent a lenis phoneme, non necessarily voiced, that contrasts with fortis /p/ (which may take greater aspiration, tenseness or duration).

Other uses

B is besides a musical note. In English language-speaking countries, information technology represents Si, the twelfth note of a chromatic scale built on C. In Central Europe and Scandinavia, "B" is used to denote B-apartment and the 12th annotation of the chromatic scale is denoted "H". Archaic forms of 'b', the b quadratum (square b, ♮ ) and b rotundum (round b, ♭ ) are used in musical annotation every bit the symbols for natural and flat, respectively.

In Contracted (class ii) English braille, 'b' stands for "but" when in isolation.

In information science, B is the symbol for byte, a unit of measurement of data storage.

In applied science, B is the symbol for bel, a unit of measurement of level.

In chemistry, B is the symbol for boron, a chemic element.

The claret-type B emoji (🅱️) was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and became a pop internet meme in 2018 where letters would be replaced with the emoji.^[vii]

Ancestors, descendants and siblings

𐤁 : Semitic letter Bet, from which the following symbols originally derive
Β β : Greek letter Beta, from which B derives
Ⲃ ⲃ Coptic letter Bēta, which derives from Greek Beta
В в : Cyrillic letter of the alphabet Ve, which too derives from Beta
Б б : Cyrillic letter Be, which also derives from Beta
ʙ : A small-scale capital letter B, used as the lowercase B in a number of alphabets during romanization
𐌁 : One-time Italic B, which derives from Greek Beta
ᛒ : Runic alphabetic character Berkanan, which probably derives from Onetime Italic B
𐌱 : Gothic letter bercna, which derives from Greek Beta
IPA-specific symbols related to B: ɓ ʙ β
B with diacritics: Ƀ ƀ Ḃ ḃ Ḅ ḅ Ḇ ḇ Ɓ ɓ ᵬ^[eight] ᶀ^[ix]
Ꞗ ꞗ : B with flourish
ᴃ ᴯ ^B ^b : Barred B and various modifier messages are used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.^[10]
Ƃ ƃ : B with topbar

Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols

␢ : U+2422 ␢ BLANK SYMBOL
฿ : Thai baht
₿ : Bitcoin
♭: The flat in music, mentioned above, withal closely resembles lowercase b.

Code points

These are the code points for the forms of the alphabetic character in various systems

Character data
Preview	B		b
Unicode proper name	LATIN Capital B		LATIN Small-scale LETTER B
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	66	U+0042	98	U+0062
UTF-8	66	42	98	62
Numeric graphic symbol reference	B	B	b	b
EBCDIC family unit	194	C2	130	82
ASCII ⁱ	66	42	98	62

¹ Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Other representations

Use as a number

In the hexadecimal (base 16) numbering organization, B is a number that corresponds to the number xi in decimal (base ten) counting.

References

^ "B", Oxford English Lexicon, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989
^ "B", Merriam-Webster's 3rd New International Lexicon of the English Language, Unabridged, 1993
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "B", Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. three (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 173
^ Schumann-Antelme, Ruth; Rossini, Stéphane (1998), Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, English translation by Sterling Publishing (2002), pp. 22–23, ISBN1-4027-0025-iii
^ Goldwasser, Orly (March–April 2010), "How the Alphabet Was Built-in from Hieroglyphs", Biblical Archeology Review, vol. 36, Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, ISSN 0098-9444, archived from the original on 30 June 2016, retrieved 11 August 2015
^ It also resembles the hieroglyph for /h/ ⟨ ⟩ meaning "estate" or "reed shelter".
^ "B Push button Emoji 🅱". Know Your Meme. Archived from the original on 25 Jan 2019. Retrieved 4 Dec 2018.
^ Constable, Peter (30 September 2003). "L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
^ Constable, Peter (19 Apr 2004). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add boosted phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
^ Everson, Michael; et al. (twenty March 2002). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 Feb 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.

External links

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B