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B (minuscule: b) is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is bee (pronounced /ˈbiː/ ⓘ), plural bees.

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Alphabetical position
2
Associated graphs
bv bh bp bm bf
Associated numbers
2
Descendants
♭ · ␢ · ฿ · Ⓑ ⓑ ⒝⟂ · 🅱
Development
Β β𐌁 B b · 𐌁 B b · B b
In Unicode
U+0042, U+0062

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B

Nodes143
Edges142
Triples127
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013986
Components1

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related to Ancestors, descendants and siblings · 21
B → Barred, Be, Berkanan, Bet, Beta, Betaʙ, BetaБ, Bēta, Coptic, Cyrillic, Gothic, Greek, Greek BetaIPA-specific, Greek BetaВ, Greek Betaᛒ, Old Italic, Old Italic B𐌱, Runic, Semitic, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
related to Computing · 15
B → ASCII, CAPITAL LETTER, CAPITAL LETTER BETA, CAPITAL LETTER VE, CJK, Greek, ISO, Latin, SMALL LETTER, The Cyrillic, The Latin, There, These, Unicode, Variant
related to Other languages · 15
B → Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Icelandic, In Estonian, In Fijian, Instead, Mandarin Chinese Pinyin, Many, Pinyin, Scottish Gaelic, Xhosa, Zulu
related to history · 14
B → By Byzantine, Cumaean, Etruscan, Greek, Modern Greek, Phoenician, Pr, Proto-Sinaitic, Slavic, The Cyrillic, The Egyptian, The Greek, The Hebrew, The Roman
related to English · 12
B → As, English, For, Germanic, Grimm's Law, In English, Indo-European, It, Latin, Phonological, The, This
related to Other uses · 9
B → Archaic, B-flat, English, In, In Central Europe, In Contracted, In English-speaking, Scandinavia, Si
related to External links · 7
B → Encyclopædia Britannica, Media, Peter, Wikimedia Commons The, Wiktionary The, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, WiktionaryGiles
Descendants · 5
B → ฿, ␢, Ⓑ ⓑ ⒝⟂, ♭, 🅱
Sound values · 5
B → [b], [p], [ɓ], [ʙ], [β]
Sisters · 4
B → (בּ ב ب ܒ), Б, В, Բ

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english letter languages latin used voiced bilabial greek ipa represents alphabet represent symbols use beta consonant developed forms stop phonetic

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BAlphabetical position21.00infobox
BAssociated graphsbv bh bp bm bf1.00infobox
BAssociated numbers21.00infobox
BDescendants1.00infobox
BDescendants1.00infobox
BDescendants฿1.00infobox
BDescendantsⒷ ⓑ ⒝⟂1.00infobox
BDescendants🅱1.00infobox
BDevelopmentΒ β𐌁 B b1.00infobox
BDevelopment𐌁 B b1.00infobox
BDevelopmentB b1.00infobox
BIn UnicodeU+0042, U+00621.00infobox
BLanguage of originLatin language1.00infobox
BSistersБ1.00infobox
BSistersВ1.00infobox
BSistersԲ1.00infobox
BSisters(בּ ב ب ܒ)1.00infobox
BSound values[b]1.00infobox
BSound values[p]1.00infobox
BSound values[β]1.00infobox
BSound values[ɓ]1.00infobox
BSound values[ʙ]1.00infobox
BTime periodunknown to present1.00infobox
BTypeAlphabetic1.00infobox
BWriting directionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
BWriting systemLatin script English alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet1.00infobox
Bis anumber that corresponds to the number 11 in decimal0.90text
Bis asymbol for byte0.90text

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