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<span>Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_ligatures,_abbreviations,_signs_and_symbols-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_representations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_representations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Other representations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Other_representations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Other representations subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Other_representations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Computing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Computing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Computing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Computing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Other</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">B</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 160 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-160" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">160 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ܐܪܡܝܐ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%B0_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF" title="লেটিন আখৰ বি – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="লেটিন আখৰ বি" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%85%D3%99%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5)" title="B (латин хәрефе) – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="B (латин хәрефе)" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="B (літара) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="B (літара)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="B (літара) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="B (літара)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(lizherenn)" title="B (lizherenn) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="B (lizherenn)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(lettre)" title="B (lettre) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="B (lettre)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_%D2%AF%D0%B7%D0%B3" title="B үзг – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="B үзг" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BC)" title="B (լատինական տառ) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="B (լատինական տառ)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gor mw-list-item"><a href="https://gor.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Gorontalo" lang="gor" hreflang="gor" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Hulontalo" data-language-local-name="Gorontalo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Hulontalo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(t%C3%AEp)" title="B (tîp) – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="B (tîp)" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0)" title="B (латиница) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="B (латиница)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF_(%E0%B4%87%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82)" title="ബി (ഇംഗ്ലീഷക്ഷരം) – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബി (ഇംഗ്ലീഷക്ഷരം)" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%98%E1%80%AE_(%E1%80%A1%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC)" title="ဘီ (အက္ခရာ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဘီ (အက္ခရာ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://fj.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Na Vosa Vakaviti" data-language-local-name="Fijian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(letter)" title="B (letter) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="B (letter)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(buksteew)" title="B (buksteew) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="B (buksteew)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5)" title="B (латин тиште) – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="B (латин тиште)" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(lotin)" title="B (lotin) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="B (lotin)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%80_(%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%B0)" title="ਬੀ (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਅੱਖਰ) – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਬੀ (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਅੱਖਰ)" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Pangasinan" data-language-local-name="Pangasinan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangasinan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(lat%C4%B1n)" title="B (latın) – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="B (latın)" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tn mw-list-item"><a href="https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Tswana" lang="tn" hreflang="tn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Setswana" data-language-local-name="Tswana" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Setswana</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(alifbeet)" title="B (alifbeet) – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="B (alifbeet)" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a href="https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Sranan Tongo" lang="srn" hreflang="srn" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Sranantongo" data-language-local-name="Sranan Tongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sranantongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5)" title="B (слово латинице) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="B (слово латинице)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shi mw-list-item"><a href="https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(Askkil)" title="B (Askkil) – Tachelhit" lang="shi" hreflang="shi" data-title="B (Askkil)" data-language-autonym="Taclḥit" data-language-local-name="Tachelhit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taclḥit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-din mw-list-item"><a href="https://din.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Dinka" lang="din" hreflang="din" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Thuɔŋjäŋ" data-language-local-name="Dinka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Thuɔŋjäŋ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F)" title="B (латиниця) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="B (латиниця)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/B" title="B – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="B" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Walon</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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For the similar Greek letter, see <a href="/wiki/Beta" title="Beta">Beta</a>. For the similar Cyrillic letter, see <a href="/wiki/Ve_(Cyrillic)" title="Ve (Cyrillic)">Ve (Cyrillic)</a>. For the German letter confused with "B", see <a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" title="ß">ß</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/B_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="B (disambiguation)">B (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable plainlinks selfreference noprint selfref">For <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)">technical reasons</a>, "B#" redirects here. 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Associated graphs</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_affricate" title="Voiced bilabial affricate">bv</a><br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#B" title="List of Latin-script digraphs">bh<br />bp<br />bm</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_affricate" title="Voiced labiodental affricate">bf</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Associated numbers</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Writing direction</th><td class="infobox-data">Left-to-right</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint selfref" style="background:#ddf; padding:0.3em 0.5em;text-align:left;line-height:1.3;">This article contains <b><a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA)</b>. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. 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href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Latin_alphabet_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Latin alphabet sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>B</b>, or <b>b</b>, is the second <a href="/wiki/Letter_(alphabet)" title="Letter (alphabet)">letter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet</a>, used in the <a href="/wiki/English_alphabet" title="English alphabet">modern English alphabet</a>, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is <i><a href="/wiki/English_alphabet#Letter_names" title="English alphabet">bee</a></i> (pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span></span>), plural <i>bees</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It represents the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_stop" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced bilabial stop">voiced bilabial stop</a> in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other <a href="/wiki/Bilabial_consonant" title="Bilabial consonant">bilabial consonants</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Egyptian<br /><a href="/wiki/Pr_(hieroglyph)" title="Pr (hieroglyph)">Pr</a> </th> <th>Phoenician <br /><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">bēt</a> </th> <th>Western Greek <br /><a href="/wiki/Beta_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beta (letter)">beta</a> </th> <th>Etruscan <br />B </th> <th>Latin <br />B </th></tr> <tr style="background-color:white; text-align:center;"> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EgyptianB-01.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Egyptian hieroglyphic house"><img alt="Egyptian hieroglyphic house" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/EgyptianB-01.svg/64px-EgyptianB-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="64" height="36" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/EgyptianB-01.svg/96px-EgyptianB-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/EgyptianB-01.svg/128px-EgyptianB-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="54" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PhoenicianB-01.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Phoenician beth"><img alt="Phoenician beth" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/PhoenicianB-01.svg/45px-PhoenicianB-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/PhoenicianB-01.svg/68px-PhoenicianB-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/PhoenicianB-01.svg/90px-PhoenicianB-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greek_Beta_16.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Greek beta"><img alt="Greek beta" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Greek_Beta_16.svg/50px-Greek_Beta_16.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Greek_Beta_16.svg/75px-Greek_Beta_16.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Greek_Beta_16.svg/100px-Greek_Beta_16.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="43" data-file-height="53" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EtruscanB-01.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Etruscan B"><img alt="Etruscan B" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EtruscanB-01.svg/30px-EtruscanB-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EtruscanB-01.svg/45px-EtruscanB-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EtruscanB-01.svg/60px-EtruscanB-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="130" data-file-height="180" /></a></span> </td> <td><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Latin B"><img alt="Latin B" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg/20px-Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg/30px-Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg/40px-Capitalis_monumentalis_B.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="37" data-file-height="55" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Roman <span class="nowrap">⟨B⟩</span> derived from the <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> capital <a href="/wiki/Beta_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beta (letter)">beta</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Β</span></span>⟩</span> via its <a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Italic script">Etruscan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Euboean" title="Archaic Greek alphabets">Cumaean</a> variants. The Greek letter was an adaptation of the <a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">bēt</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn" dir="rtl">𐤁</span></span>⟩</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1878,_p._173_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1878,_p._173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyph</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonant</a> <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">/b/</a> had been an image of a <a href="/wiki/Foot_(hieroglyph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foot (hieroglyph)">foot and calf</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨ <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hiero_D58.png" class="mw-file-description" title="B"><img alt="B" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Hiero_D58.png/10px-Hiero_D58.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Hiero_D58.png/15px-Hiero_D58.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Hiero_D58.png/20px-Hiero_D58.png 2x" data-file-width="22" data-file-height="35" /></a></span> ⟩</span>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but bēt (Phoenician for "house") was a modified form of a <a href="/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script" title="Proto-Sinaitic script">Proto-Sinaitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨ <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bet"><img alt="Bet" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg/20px-Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg/30px-Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg/40px-Proto-Canaanite_-_bet.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1134" data-file-height="1134" /></a></span> ⟩</span> adapted from the separate <a href="/wiki/Pr_(hieroglyph)" title="Pr (hieroglyph)">hieroglyph Pr</a> <span class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap">⟨ <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Egyptian-per2.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="Per"><img alt="Per" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Egyptian-per2.PNG/20px-Egyptian-per2.PNG" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Egyptian-per2.PNG/30px-Egyptian-per2.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Egyptian-per2.PNG 2x" data-file-width="38" data-file-height="44" /></a></span> ⟩</span></span> meaning "house".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">bet</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl"><a href="/wiki/%D7%91" class="mw-redirect" title="ב">ב</a></span></span>⟩</span> is a separate development of the Phoenician letter.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1878,_p._173_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1878,_p._173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine Greek">Byzantine times</a>, the Greek letter <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Β</span></span>⟩</span> came to be pronounced <a href="/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_fricative" title="Voiced labiodental fricative">/v/</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1878,_p._173_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1878,_p._173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so that it is known in <a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek" title="Modern Greek">modern Greek</a> as <i>víta</i> (still written <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">βήτα</span></span>). The <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic alphabet">Cyrillic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Ve_(Cyrillic)" title="Ve (Cyrillic)">ve</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">В</span></span>⟩</span> represents the same sound, so a modified form known as <a href="/wiki/Be_(Cyrillic)" title="Be (Cyrillic)">be</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Б</span></span>⟩</span> was developed to represent the <a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic languages</a>' <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">/b/</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1878,_p._173_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1878,_p._173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Modern Greek continues to lack a letter for the voiced bilabial plosive and transliterates such sounds from other languages using the <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraph</a>/<a href="/wiki/Consonant_cluster" title="Consonant cluster">consonant cluster</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">μπ</span></span>⟩</span>, <i>mp</i>.) </p><p><a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> was originally written in <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">runes</a>, whose equivalent letter was <a href="/wiki/Beorc" class="mw-redirect" title="Beorc">beorc</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><span lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/%E1%9B%92" class="mw-redirect" title="ᛒ">ᛒ</a></span></span>⟩</span>, meaning "<a href="/wiki/Birch" title="Birch">birch</a>". Beorc dates to at least the 2nd-century <a href="/wiki/Elder_Futhark" title="Elder Futhark">Elder Futhark</a>, which is now thought to have derived from the <a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_alphabets" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Italic alphabets">Old Italic alphabets</a>' <span class="nowrap">⟨ <span title="Italic languages collective text"><span lang="itc"><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%8C%81" class="mw-redirect" title="𐌁">𐌁</a></span></span> ⟩</span> either directly or via <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RomanB-01.png" class="mw-file-description" title="B"><img alt="B" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/RomanB-01.png/12px-RomanB-01.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/RomanB-01.png/18px-RomanB-01.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/RomanB-01.png/24px-RomanB-01.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span>⟩</span>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Uncial_script" title="Uncial script">uncial</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:UncialB-01.png" class="mw-file-description" title="B"><img alt="B" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/UncialB-01.png/12px-UncialB-01.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/UncialB-01.png/18px-UncialB-01.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/UncialB-01.png/24px-UncialB-01.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span>⟩</span> and <a href="/wiki/Half-uncial" class="mw-redirect" title="Half-uncial">half-uncial</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Half-uncial_b.png" class="mw-file-description" title="b"><img alt="b" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Half-uncial_b.png/10px-Half-uncial_b.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Half-uncial_b.png/15px-Half-uncial_b.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Half-uncial_b.png/20px-Half-uncial_b.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="273" /></a></span>⟩</span> introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_mission" title="Gregorian mission">Gregorian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission" title="Hiberno-Scottish mission">Irish missions</a> gradually developed into the <a href="/wiki/Insular_script" title="Insular script">Insular scripts</a>' <span class="nowrap">⟨<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Insular-b.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="b"><img alt="b" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Insular-b.svg/10px-Insular-b.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Insular-b.svg/15px-Insular-b.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Insular-b.svg/20px-Insular-b.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="64" /></a></span>⟩</span>. These <a href="/wiki/Old_English_Latin_alphabet" title="Old English Latin alphabet">Old English Latin alphabets</a> supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under <a href="/wiki/King_Canute" class="mw-redirect" title="King Canute">King Canute</a> in the early 11th century. The <a href="/wiki/Norman_Conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman Conquest of England">Norman Conquest</a> popularised the <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolingian script">Carolingian</a> half-uncial forms which latter developed into <a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">blackletter</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨ <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Blackletter_b.png" class="mw-file-description" title="b"><img alt="b" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackletter_b.png/10px-Blackletter_b.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackletter_b.png/15px-Blackletter_b.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackletter_b.png/20px-Blackletter_b.png 2x" data-file-width="50" data-file-height="73" /></a></span> ⟩</span>. Around 1300, <a href="/wiki/Letter_case" title="Letter case">letter case</a> was increasingly distinguished, with <a href="/wiki/Capitalization" title="Capitalization">upper-</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lower-case" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower-case">lower-case</a> B taking separate meanings. Following the advent of <a href="/wiki/Letterpress_printing" title="Letterpress printing">printing</a> in the 15th century, the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> (Germany) and <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> continued to use forms of blackletter (particularly <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a>), while England eventually adopted the <a href="/wiki/Humanist_minuscule" title="Humanist minuscule">humanist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antiqua_(typeface_class)" title="Antiqua (typeface class)">antiqua</a> scripts developed in <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Renaissance Italy">Renaissance Italy</a> from a combination of Roman inscriptions and Carolingian texts. The present forms of the <a href="/wiki/Cursive#English_cursive" title="Cursive">English cursive</a> B were developed by the 17th century. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg/200px-Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg/300px-Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg/400px-Newes_ABC_Buchlein_MET_DP855602.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2697" data-file-height="3382" /></a><figcaption>Late <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> or early <a href="/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a> design of a B, from 1627</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_in_writing_systems">Use in writing systems</h2></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <caption>Pronunciation of <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> by language </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Orthography </th> <th>Phonemes </th></tr> <tr> <th><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Chinese</a></span> (<a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>) </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiceless bilabial plosive">p</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/French_orthography" title="French orthography">French</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiceless bilabial plosive">p</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/German_orthography" title="German orthography">German</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiceless bilabial plosive">p</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_orthography" title="Portuguese orthography">Portuguese</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Spanish_orthography" title="Spanish orthography">Spanish</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a>/</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> denotes the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_stop" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced bilabial stop">voiced bilabial stop</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/b/</span>, as in <i>bib</i>. In English, it is sometimes <a href="/wiki/Silent_letter" title="Silent letter">silent</a>. This occurs particularly in words ending in <span class="nowrap">⟨mb⟩</span>, such as <i>lamb</i> and <i>bomb</i>, some of which originally had a /b/ sound, while some had the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> added by analogy (see <a href="/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#Plum-plumb_merger_and_him-hymn_merger" title="Phonological history of English consonant clusters">Phonological history of English consonant clusters</a>). The <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> in <i>debt</i>, <i>doubt</i>, <i>subtle</i>, and related words was added in the 16th century as an <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymological spelling</a>, intended to make the words more like their <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> originals (<i>debitum</i>, <i>dubito</i>, <i>subtilis</i>). </p><p>As /b/ is one of the sounds subject to <a href="/wiki/Grimm%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Grimm's Law">Grimm's Law</a>, words which have <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> in English and other <a href="/wiki/Germanic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic language">Germanic languages</a> may find their cognates in other <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a> appearing with <span class="nowrap">⟨bh⟩</span>, <span class="nowrap">⟨p⟩</span>, <span class="nowrap">⟨f⟩</span> or <span class="nowrap">⟨φ⟩</span> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1878,_p._173_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1878,_p._173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, compare the various cognates of the word <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brother" class="extiw" title="wikt:brother"><i>brother</i></a>. It is the <a href="/wiki/Letter_frequency" title="Letter frequency">seventh least frequently used letter</a> in the English language (after <a href="/wiki/V" title="V">V</a>, <a href="/wiki/K" title="K">K</a>, <a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a>, <a href="/wiki/X" title="X">X</a>, <a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Q</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a>), with a frequency of about 1.5% in words. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_languages">Other languages</h3></div> <p>Many other languages besides English use <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> to represent a <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_stop" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced bilabial stop">voiced bilabial stop</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Estonian_language" title="Estonian language">Estonian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Faroese_language" title="Faroese language">Faroese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_language" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin Chinese</a> <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> does not denote a voiced consonant. Instead, it represents a voiceless <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/p/</span> that contrasts with either a <a href="/wiki/Geminate" class="mw-redirect" title="Geminate">geminated</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/pː/</span> (in Estonian) or an <a href="/wiki/Aspiration_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aspiration (linguistics)">aspirated</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/p<sup>h</sup>/</span> (in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic and Pinyin) represented by <a href="/wiki/P" title="P"><span class="nowrap">⟨p⟩</span></a>. In <a href="/wiki/Fijian_language" title="Fijian language">Fijian</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> represents a <a href="/wiki/Prenasalized_consonant" title="Prenasalized consonant">prenasalised</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/mb/</span>, whereas in <a href="/wiki/Zulu_language" title="Zulu language">Zulu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Xhosa_language" title="Xhosa language">Xhosa</a> it represents an <a href="/wiki/Implosive_consonant" title="Implosive consonant">implosive</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɓ/</span>, in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraph</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨bh⟩</span> which represents <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/b/</span>. <a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a> uses <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> only in <a href="/wiki/Loanwords" class="mw-redirect" title="Loanwords">loanwords</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_systems">Other systems</h3></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a>, [b] is used to represent the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_stop" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced bilabial stop">voiced bilabial stop</a> <a href="/wiki/Phone_(phonetics)" title="Phone (phonetics)">phone</a>. In phonological transcription systems for specific languages, /b/ may be used to represent a <a href="/wiki/Voice_(phonetics)#Voice_and_tenseness" title="Voice (phonetics)">lenis</a> <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phoneme</a>, not necessarily voiced, that contrasts with fortis /p/ (which may have greater aspiration, tenseness or duration). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/B_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="B (disambiguation)">B (disambiguation)</a></div> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/Base-16" class="mw-redirect" title="Base-16">base-16</a> numbering system, B is a number that corresponds to the number 11 in <a href="/wiki/Decimal" title="Decimal">decimal</a> (base 10) counting.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B_(musical_note)" title="B (musical note)">B</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Musical_note" title="Musical note">musical note</a>. In <a href="/wiki/English-speaking_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="English-speaking countries">English-speaking countries</a>, it represents Si, the 12th note of a <a href="/wiki/Chromatic_scale" title="Chromatic scale">chromatic scale</a> built on <a href="/wiki/C_(musical_note)" title="C (musical note)">C</a>. In Central Europe and <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a>, "B" is used to denote <a href="/wiki/B%E2%99%AD_(musical_note)" title="B♭ (musical note)">B-flat</a> and the 12th note of the chromatic scale is denoted "H". Archaic forms of 'b', the <i>b quadratum</i> (square b, <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-natural">♮</span></span>) and <i>b rotundum</i> (round b, <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span>) are used in <a href="/wiki/Musical_notation" title="Musical notation">musical notation</a> as the symbols for <i><a href="/wiki/Natural_(music)" title="Natural (music)">natural</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Flat_(music)" title="Flat (music)">flat</a></i>, respectively.</li> <li>In Contracted (grade 2) English braille, <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> stands for "but" when in isolation.</li> <li>In computer science, B is the symbol for <a href="/wiki/Byte" title="Byte">byte</a>, a unit of information storage.</li> <li>In engineering, B is the symbol for <a href="/wiki/Decibel" title="Decibel">bel</a>, a unit of <a href="/wiki/Level_(logarithmic_quantity)" title="Level (logarithmic quantity)">level</a>.</li> <li>In chemistry, B is the symbol for <a href="/wiki/Boron" title="Boron">boron</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Chemical_element" title="Chemical element">chemical element</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_characters">Related characters</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancestors,_descendants_and_siblings"><span id="Ancestors.2C_descendants_and_siblings"></span>Ancestors, descendants and siblings</h3></div> <ul><li>𐤁 : <a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Semitic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)" title="Bet (letter)">Bet</a>, from which the following symbols originally derive</li> <li>Β β : <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Beta_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beta (letter)">Beta</a>, from which B derives</li> <li>Ⲃ ⲃ <a href="/wiki/Coptic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic alphabet">Coptic</a> letter Bēta, which derives from Greek Beta</li> <li>В в : <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Ve_(Cyrillic)" title="Ve (Cyrillic)">Ve</a>, which also derives from Beta</li> <li>Б б : Cyrillic letter <a href="/wiki/Be_(Cyrillic)" title="Be (Cyrillic)">Be</a>, which also derives from Beta</li> <li>ʙ : <a href="/wiki/%CA%99" class="mw-redirect" title="ʙ">A small capital B</a>, used as the lowercase B in a number of alphabets during romanization</li> <li>𐌁 : <a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Italic script">Old Italic</a> B, which derives from Greek Beta</li> <li>ᛒ : <a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">Runic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Berkanan" title="Berkanan">Berkanan</a>, which probably derives from Old Italic B</li> <li>𐌱 : <a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a> letter bercna, which derives from Greek Beta</li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>-specific symbols related to B: <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_implosive" title="Voiced bilabial implosive">ɓ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_trill" title="Voiced bilabial trill">ʙ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_fricative" title="Voiced bilabial fricative">β</a></span> <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%9E%84" class="mw-redirect" title="𐞄">𐞄</a><sup id="cite_ref-L220252_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220252-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%9E%85" class="mw-redirect" title="𐞅">𐞅</a><sup id="cite_ref-L220252_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220252-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>B with <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">diacritics</a>: <a href="/wiki/%C9%83" title="Ƀ">Ƀ</a> ƀ <a href="/wiki/Dot_(diacritic)" title="Dot (diacritic)">Ḃ ḃ Ḅ ḅ</a> <a href="/wiki/Macron_below" title="Macron below">Ḇ ḇ</a> <a href="/wiki/%C6%81" title="Ɓ">Ɓ</a> ɓ ᵬ<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ᶀ<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ꞗ ꞗ : <a href="/wiki/B_with_flourish" title="B with flourish">B with flourish</a></li> <li>ᴃ ᴯ <sup>B</sup> <sup>b</sup> : Barred B and various modifier letters are used in the <a href="/wiki/Uralic_Phonetic_Alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Uralic Phonetic Alphabet">Uralic Phonetic Alphabet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ƃ ƃ : <a href="/wiki/%C6%82" title="Ƃ">B with topbar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Derived_ligatures,_abbreviations,_signs_and_symbols"><span id="Derived_ligatures.2C_abbreviations.2C_signs_and_symbols"></span>Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols</h3></div> <ul><li>␢ : <span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+2422</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">␢</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Space_(punctuation)" title="Space (punctuation)">BLANK SYMBOL</a></span></li> <li>฿ : <a href="/wiki/Thai_baht" title="Thai baht">Thai baht</a></li> <li>₿ : <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a></li> <li>♭: The <a href="/wiki/Flat_(music)" title="Flat (music)">flat</a> in music, mentioned above, still closely resembles lowercase b.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_representations">Other representations</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computing">Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing_codes"></span></h3></div> <p>The Latin letters <span class="nowrap">⟨B⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> have <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> encodings <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0042</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">B</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0062</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">b</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER B</span>. These are the same <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code points</a> as those used in <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> and <a href="/wiki/ISO_8859" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 8859">ISO 8859</a>. There are also <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed character</a> encodings for <span class="nowrap">⟨B⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨b⟩</span> with diacritics, for most of those listed <a href="#Related_characters">above</a>; the remainder are produced using <a href="/wiki/Combining_diacritic" class="mw-redirect" title="Combining diacritic">combining diacritics</a>. </p><p>Variant forms of the letter have unique code points for specialist use: the <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols" title="Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols">alphanumeric symbols set</a> in mathematics and science, <a href="/wiki/Latin_beta" title="Latin beta">Latin beta</a> in linguistics, and <a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">halfwidth and fullwidth forms</a> for legacy <a href="/wiki/CJK_characters" title="CJK characters">CJK</a> font compatibility. The Cyrillic and Greek <a href="/wiki/Homoglyph" title="Homoglyph">homoglyphs</a> of the Latin <span class="nowrap">⟨B⟩</span> have separate encodings: <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0412</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">В</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Ve_(Cyrillic)" title="Ve (Cyrillic)">CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE</a></span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0392</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">Β</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Beta" title="Beta">GREEK CAPITAL LETTER BETA</a></span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div> <div style="width: 500px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="text-align: center; background: white;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 125%;"> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; line-height:1.3em; padding:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/NATO_spelling_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO spelling alphabet">NATO phonetic</a> </td> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; border-right: 1px solid silver;"><a href="/wiki/Morse_code" title="Morse code">Morse code</a> </td></tr> <tr style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; font-size:150%"> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; padding:0.3em;">Bravo<br /><i style="font-size:75%"></i> </td> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-right: 1px solid silver; font-size: large;"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion nounderlines"><span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" 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<td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-bottom: 1px solid silver; padding-bottom:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags" title="International maritime signal flags">Signal flag</a> </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-bottom: 1px solid silver;"><a href="/wiki/Flag_semaphore" title="Flag semaphore">Flag semaphore</a> </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-bottom: 1px solid silver;"><a href="/wiki/American_manual_alphabet" title="American manual alphabet">American manual alphabet</a> (<a href="/wiki/American_Sign_Language" title="American Sign Language">ASL</a> <a href="/wiki/Fingerspelling" title="Fingerspelling">fingerspelling</a>) </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-bottom: 1px solid silver;"><a href="/wiki/British_manual_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="British manual alphabet">British manual alphabet</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Sign_Language" 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alt="H" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Hiero_O4.png/15px-Hiero_O4.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Hiero_O4.png 1.5x" data-file-width="23" data-file-height="18" /></a></span> ⟩</span> meaning "manor" or "reed shelter".</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B5%AC" class="mw-redirect" title="ᵬ">ᵬ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%80" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶀ">ᶀ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td 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