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b Appendix:Variations of "b" Ｂ 𝕭 𜳗 Translingual Etymology 1 From the mul ett - letter ett 𐌁 be, from the mul grc - letter grc Β beta, derived from the mul phn - letter phn 𐤁 bet, from the mul egy - hieroglyph egy 𓉐. Letter mul mul letter 2 Usage notes The letter mul B (usually its lower case form mul b) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (/b/). See also For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b". other scripts mul Β Beta, mul Б Be, mul В Ve, mul ב Beth Etymology 2 Symbol mul symbols A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. They can receive blood from type B or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or A. boron Eleven, especially used in the base more than eleven, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on. en The equivalent numbers of decimal 1611 are duodecimal B23, hexadecimal 64B, vigesimal 40B and so on. mul amino acid As an IUPAC code for amino acids, aspartic acid or asparagine. mul physics A magnetic flux density. mul Q16021 mul suffixive billion (short scale) &equals; 10⁹ &equals; 1 000 000 000 mul T<id:Q862978><qq:10¹²> mul K<id:Q43016> k<id:Q43016> M<id:Q43016><qq:10³> < M<id:Q38526><qq:10⁶> mul G-<id:Q108483><qq:prefix> mul 27B &equals; 27 000 000 000 mul linguistics A wildcard for a labial consonant mul linguistics low tone (e.g. in French-language text) 1 1 1 a bond is highly speculative with high risk of default mul clothing Bra cup size. Symbol for basement. mul license plate codes Belgium Gallery See also blood type from en antigen antigen B symbol for boron abbreviation of en boron hexadecimal 11 The eleventh item from the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F} B Bravo –··· ⠃ Further reading English Pronunciation phoneme en /b/ letter name en /biː/ en en-uk-b.ogg UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-B.wav US en en-au-B.ogg AU en iː 1 Etymology 1 class=skin-invert-image|50px|left|The b-rune ᛒ, an older version of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ, the Old English letter replaced by Latin ‘B’ From the en ang - letter ang B, from 7th century replacement by la B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ang ᛒ beorc. Letter en en letter 2 bee 3 Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof Usage notes In Modern English, the letter en B is sometimes silent, e.g. in en climb, and en debt. See also Number en en ordinal 2 bee Etymology 2 From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. billion abbreviation of en billion cricket abbreviation of en ball balls bitch abbreviation of en bitch Noun - + The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money. en $2.8 B two point eight billion dollars (i.e., $2,800,000,000) en British The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead. en chess en bishop. en 2023 Laws of Chess https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20230101Laws-of-Chess.pdf 2022 23 w:FIDE 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=) https://web.archive.org/web/20250316122506/https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20230101Laws-of-Chess.pdf 16 March 2025 12 June 2025 en GM Noël Studer Mastering Chess Puzzles: The Comprehensive Guide to Effective Problem Solving Next Level Chess https://nextlevelchess.com/mastering-chess-puzzles-comprehensive-guide-to-effective-problem-solving/ 2023-08-12 The correct answer is 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 2.Rf1 Raf8 3.Qg5 Kg7 4.Nh5+Other sub-variations work, such as playing 2.Qg5 then 3.Rf1 or playing 4.Bxf6+ first before playing 5.Nh5+. https://web.archive.org/web/20260306072510/https://nextlevelchess.com/mastering-chess-puzzles-comprehensive-guide-to-effective-problem-solving/ 6 March 2026 en cricket The number of balls faced by a batsman. en music bass. en AU euphemistic countable bastard. en 2003 Gina Riley and Jane Turner That's Unusual ABC Books Sydney 153 I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower. en euphemistic countable bitch. en 2011-12-25 Robert M. Emerson Rachel I. Fretz Linda L. Shaw Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition University of Chicago Press 9780226206868 99 [quoting an ethnographer’s account:] He then called me a “dumb B” and hung up the phone. Meredith pauses, looks at Graciela, and says, “Okay, I need you to be as specific as you can, so that means you’re going to have to tell me what he called you, exactly.” Graciela grabs the pen and writes down, “Dumb Bitch.” Robert then arrived at my house that day to see our son and upon leaving said, “I’ll see you in court you Dumb B.” en 2016-05-23 Caron Lipman Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny Routledge 9781317164685 179 And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know. en 2020-03-26 w:Dezzie Chucky https://genius.com/Dezzie-chucky-lyrics Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky. en chiefly AAVE MLE en blood,blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.B 5 n l27whii en b en 2018-10-08 Ruby Bloom What your favourite social media says about you w:The Tab https://thetab.com/uk/bristol/2018/10/08/what-your-favourite-social-media-says-about-you-34582 You’re a fuckboy whose most used phrase is, "wag one b, wys?". Pulling girls at Gravity Monday is the highlight of your week. You constantly send selfies flexing your muscles and showing off your ‘six pack.’ https://web.archive.org/web/20240229195528/https://thetab.com/uk/bristol/2018/10/08/what-your-favourite-social-media-says-about-you-34582 29 February 2024 en immunology countable A B cell. en 2020-05-02 Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus w:The Economist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/02/leaving-lockdown-means-understanding-immune-responses-to-the-virus Mind your Bs and Ts And if the combined efforts of macrophages, b cells and t cells are sufficient, the pathogen will be beaten back and eventually cleared from the body. Symbol en symbols en computing byte Derived terms computing Bps, B/s computing kB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB Translations byte Finnish: fi t tavu French: fr o octet See also computing b bit Etymology 3 From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels. personality type from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type academic grade from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet Noun A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work. en grade An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc. en The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff. en 1999 Michael Sauter The Worst Movies of All Time, Or, What Were They Thinking? 268 The baddest of the Bs, then, are a rare, precious mix of jerry-built production values and jazzed-up creative juices. But that’s not to say that even with a budget, a B movie can’t still bounce way off the wall, The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part. en music en music The seventh note in the C major scale. en music A major chord having the notes B–D♯–F♯ as the root, third, and fifth; the major scale with B as its keynote. en Ray Stevens, Bill Justis Bill Everette Gitarzan Ray Stevens 1969 He ordered Chet's guitar course CODMakes A, E, workin' on BDigs C&W an' R&BAn' me an' a chimpanzee agreeThat one day soon he'll beA celebrity. Usage notes Translations musical note Czech: cs H Faroese: fo H n Finnish: fi h French: fr si m German: de H n Etymology 4 Possibly a contraction of en BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language, the name of a programming language from which B was derived. Dennis Ritchie (a coworker of B’s designer, Ken Thompson) speculated that B might be based on Bon (the name of an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics), itself either from en Bonnie (the name of Thompson’s wife) or “(according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after Bon a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas”.Dennis M[acAlistair] Ritchie The Development of the C Language https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28 3 March 1993 201–208 10.1145/155360.155580 Its name most probably represents a contraction of BCPL, though an alternate theory holds that it derives from Bon [Thompson 69], an unrelated language created by Thompson during the Multics days. Bon in turn was named either after his wife Bonnie or (according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas. Proper noun en Q797302 en programming language A programming language from which C is derived. Further reading B (programming language) References See also en B-side B story plan B B vitamin B-factory B-heptomino B-list basic B Lake Bordeaux B there is no Planet B TIS-B antihemophilic factor B peyssonol B prothromboplastin B B-reel B-sheaf Facey B Pre-Pottery Neolithic B B meson B virus A-B power A-B powering Part B state B-1 Area B B-tier meningitis B sulforhodamine B B-field B-stage en minced oaths en Academic grades Afar Letter aa aa letter 2 See also Afrikaans Pronunciation letter name af /bɪə/ Letter af af letter 2 See also Noun B's B'tjie B Angami Letter njm njm letter 31 See also Azerbaijani Pronunciation phoneme az [b] letter name az [beː] [bɯː] Letter az az letter 2 See also Basque Pronunciation be Letter eu eu letter 2 be See also Blagar Letter beu beu letter 2 See also Catalan Pronunciation bé,bé alta Letter ca ca letter 2 be be alta See also Central Franconian Etymology /b/ is from West Germanic stem-initial gmw-pro *b, in Ripuarian and northernmost Moselle Franconian also from geminated *bb. Pronunciation gmw-cfr /b/ coda [p] Letter gmw-cfr gmw-cfr letter German-based gmw-cfr letter Dutch-based Usage notes 2 Doubling of B and use in the syllable coda In the German-based spelling, b is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between b and p may be based on internal analogy, but more often follows the German cognate. In the Dutch-based spelling, b is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. In the syllable coda, internal analogy prevails. Central Mazahua Pronunciation maz /ɓ/ Letter maz maz letter Chinese Etymology 1 Pronunciation bī n Noun zh nouns zh Mandarin chiefly Internet slang zh 屄 Etymology 2 Short for yue BB baby bi1-4 bi1, from yue en baby. Pronunciation bi1 n Noun zh nouns zh Cantonese baby c:個 喂{Wai3}，睇 住 個 B{bi1} 啊{aa3}！ Hey, look after the baby! C wai3, tai2 zyu6 go3 bi1 aa3! zh Cantonese Used to call somebody affectionately. Synonyms 嬰兒 Compounds zh yue:湊B yue:陀B yue:養B yue:低B yue:何B仔 Etymology 3 Cantonese boi1 Spelling pronunciation in Hong Kong, derived from yue en boy. Pronunciation 1 bì,bī bi1,boi1 boi1 - Hong Kong xm:pi bhi5 sh:1bi,6bi letters Letter zh zh letter 2 the Latin alphabet as used in Chinese Pronunciation 2 bō,bê̄,1nb=common,2nb=official letters Letter zh zh letter 2 Pinyin Usage notes Etymology 4 Initialism of zh en beta. Pronunciation bì,bī n Noun zh nouns zh fandom zh 貝塔 zh 1 ABO A O zh 2020-07 公子柔 晋江文学城 https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=4245305 http://archive.today/qCz98 2024-12-26 《O ^装 B ^给 ^暴躁 ^上将{jiàng} ^当 ^男秘》 Omega Disguises As Beta To Serve The Irritable General As Male Secretary y zh gramograms variant forms B Chipewyan Pronunciation chp /p/ Letter chp chp letter Czech Pronunciation cs /beː/ Letter cs cs letter 2 See also Noun cs nouns cs music en B flat Dutch Pronunciation nl /beː/ nl Nl-B.ogg Letter nl nl letter 2 See also Elfdalian Alternative forms ovd ᛒ Dalecarlian runes Letter ovd ovd letter 3 Esperanto Pronunciation See eo b. Letter eo eo letter 2 bo See also Further reading b bo Estonian Pronunciation letter name bee bee phoneme b Letter et et letter 2 bee See also Even Letter eve ʙ eve obsolete eve letter the Unified Northern Alphabet Finnish Etymology Letter fi fi letter 2 bee Usage notes Used only in loanwords. Derived terms fi compounds B-oikeudet B-pilari See also Noun fi lubenter approbatur fi b B flat (musical note) note French Pronunciation bé fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-B.wav <<France>> (<<Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-B.wav <<Switzerland>> (<<Valais>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-B.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>) Letter fr fr letter 2 See also Galician Letter gl gl letter 2 See also German Pronunciation de /beː/ de De-B.OGG Letter de de letter 2 be See also Noun n,-.sg de music B-flat Declension n,-.sg See also de H B (musical note) Noun n,-,-:s en B Declension n,-,-:s Further reading Heiltsuk Pronunciation hei /p/ Letter hei hei letter 1 See also Hungarian Alternative forms hu b in music Pronunciation phoneme letter name bé hu Hu-bé.ogg Letter hu hu letter 3 bé hu music hu b Bflat B-flat, B♭ the 11th note of the C chromatic scale Declension B- eB- Derived terms hu Compound words B-dúr b-moll See also Further reading the letter and symbol b 1 in music b 2 b Icelandic Pronunciation Bé<qq:letter name> Letter is is letter 3 See also Ido Pronunciation io /b/ Letter io io letter 2 See also Indonesian Pronunciation letter name id /be/ phoneme id /b/ Etymology 1 From the id la - letter id B be, from the id ett - letter ett 𐌁 be, from the id grc - letter grc Β beta, derived from the id phn - letter phn 𐤁 bet, from the id egy - hieroglyph egy 𓉐. Letter id id letter 2 See also Etymology 2 From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels. Noun id gradeid education en B: An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A Etymology 3 From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. Noun id chemistry id boron en B: The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead Etymology 4 blood type From en w:ABO blood group system B antigen Symbol id symbol id medicine en B: A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type B or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or A Further reading Irish Letter ga ga letter 2 See also Isoko Letter iso iso letter 2 References E. O. Agbada et al, Vbuhrẹ Ụmụ́bọrá Isoko (Teach Yourself Isoko), first published 2008, revised edition 2017, page 8, 10 Onyerioma Isaac Itegolor, Isoko Wha Dooo...! Book 2 (Operation Speak Your Language), Revised Standard Edition (2015), page 1 Joe Okedi, Abidi Isoko Na Kpobi, 2020 Italian it: Pronunciation **bì*<pre:letter name> b<pre:phonemic realization> Letter it it letter 2 bi See also Italian alphabet Itelmen Letter itl ʙ itl obsolete itl letter the Unified Northern Alphabet Kalo Finnish Romani Pronunciation rmf /b/ Letter rmf rmf letter 2fi Kimmo Granqvist Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi Consice grammar of Finnish Romani Aakkoset Alphabet 1-2 https://www.academia.edu/1523925/Lyhyt_Suomen_romanikielen_kielioppi_Consice_grammar_of_Finnish_Romani_ 2011 Helsinki Kotimaisten kielten keskus 978-952-5446-69-2 1796-041X February 6, 2022 See also References Kankanaey Etymology kne tl B. Letter pronunciation is influenced by kne en B. Pronunciation bi<a:letter> b<a:phoneme> Letter letter kne letter 2 bi See also References 10-11 Kashubian Etymology Letter csb csb letter 4 See also Kildin Sami Letter sjd ʙ sjd obsolete sjd letter the Unified Northern Alphabet Latin Etymology la :bor grc:Β :influence ett:𐌁 1 la grc Β beta, likely through Etruscan. Letter la la letter representing the sound /b/ See also Latvian lv: Etymology Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic. Pronunciation b lv lv-riga-b.ogg Letter class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|B lv lv letter 3 bē See also Luxembourgish Letter lb lb letter 2 See also Noun m B-en B the letter en B Further reading Malay ms: Pronunciation Name of letter ms [bi] Phoneme, Syllable initial ms [b] Phoneme, Syllable final ms [p̚] Letter ms ms letter 2 See also Maltese Letter mt mt letter 2 See also Navajo Letter nv nv letter See also Norwegian Bokmål nb: class=skin-invert-image|250px|thumb|The uppercase and lowercase form of the letter B. Alternative forms nb b Etymology From nb la B, from nb ett 𐌁 be, from nb grc Β beta, from the nb phn 𐤁 bet, from Proto-Canaanite class=skin-invert-image|20px, from Proto-Sinaitic class=skin-invert-image|20px, from nb egy 𓉐, representing the plan of a house. Pronunciation letter name nb /beː/ phoneme nb /b/ nb Nb-be.ogg nb eː nb B nb b be Letter nb nb letter 2 See also Noun B- the letter en B, the second letter of the Norwegian alphabet nb 1873 w:Henrik Ibsen Kærlighedens komedie 14 [ordet «neste»] skulde ud af verden uden nåde, som b og g af Knudsens grammatik [the word «next»] was to come out of the world without grace, as b and g of Knudsen's grammar nb noun Denoting the second, or number two, on a scale, order or degree. nb B-post, B-lag, blodtype B, energiklasse B B-post, B-team, blood type B, energy class B 1 nb øl i klasse B beer with 0.7–2.75 volume percent alcohol 1 nb førerkort klasse B driving license class B 1 nb plan B plan B 1 nb 2003 w:Espen Søbye Kathe, alltid vært i Norge øverst i oppgang b lå den nye presteboligen med åtte rom, hall, entré og kjøkken at the top of entrance b was the new parsonage with eight rooms, hall, entrance and kitchen the second highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale nb få B til eksamen receive an B on an exam nb 2019 w:Helene Uri Stillheten etterpå 14 jeg har gode karakterer. Bare A-er og B-er I have good grades. Only A's and B's nb music the tone h lowered by half a step nb B-dur og B-moll B major and B minor nb stemt i B tuned so that a C on the instrument sounds like B in the normal scale 1 nb 1944 Børre Qvamme Musikk 35–36 enhver tone er mangetydig, fiss er også gess, diss er ess, b er aiss og så videre every tone is ambiguous, fiss is also gess, diss is ace, b is aiss and so on nb 2000 Bjørnar Pedersen og Egil Birkeland Hillman Hunter skotske sekkepiper stemmes i B Scottish bagpipes are tuned in B nb music a B-flat sign indicating that the following note is to be lowered by half a step nb 1974 w:Jens Bjørneboe Haiene 98 ingen vil påstå at notebladet med nøkler, kryss og b’er er selve musikken no one will claim that the sheet music with keys, crosses and bs is the music itself nb bass bass nb physics symbol for nb bel bel nb chemistry symbol for nb bor boron References “B (bokstav)” in Store norske leksikon “B (notasjon)” in Store norske leksikon “B (tone)” in Store norske leksikon “B (atomsymbol)” in Store norske leksikon Anagrams nb b Norwegian Nynorsk Letter nn nn letter 2 See also Noun B- the letter en B References Nupe Pronunciation phoneme nup /b/ Letter nup nup letter 2 See also Old English Pronunciation ang /b/ Letter ang ang letter Oromo Pronunciation ba ba om Om-b.ogg Letter om om letter 2 Polish Etymology pl letter Pronunciation be - - LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-B.wav Letter pl pl letter 3 be See also Portuguese Letter pt pt letter 2 bê See also Romani Pronunciation rom /b/ Letter rom rom letter 2 See also Romanian Pronunciation ro /b/ Etymology 1 Letter ro ro letter 4 be bî See also Etymology 2 Proper noun ro proper noun ro @abbrev of:București capital c/Romania Saanich Pronunciation str /pʼ/ Letter str nocase str letter 4 See also Sarikoli Pronunciation Letter srh srh letter 2 See also Scottish Gaelic Pronunciation gd /p/ Letter gd gd letter 2 A C ; traditionally named gd beith birch See also Silesian Etymology Pronunciation LL-Q30319 (szl)-Vxern-#.wav Letter szl szl letter 3 See also Skolt Sami Pronunciation phoneme sms /b/ Letter sms sms letter 3 See also Slovene sl: Etymology From Gaj's Latin alphabet sh B, from sl cs - alphabet cs B, from the sl ett - letter ett 𐌁 be, from the sl grc - letter grc Β beta, derived from the sl phn - letter phn 𐤁 bet, from the sl egy - hieroglyph egy 𓉐. Pronunciation as /bə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from sl de B. Pronunciation phoneme: sl /b/ [p] [b̪] letter name: bə̏ bẹ̄ sl Sl-nt-bə.ogg letter name, non-tonal sl ə eː Letter sl sl letter 2 sl letter 3 Resian sl letter 2 Natisone Valley dialect Symbol sl symbols SNPT not allowed to be in lower case Phonetic transcription of sound [b̪]. Noun B m-in The name of the Latin script letter B / b. Declension Overall more common B B-j More common when with a definite adjective B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Masculine inan., no endings Derived terms sl od A do B See also sl ʙ Further reading Somali Pronunciation phoneme so /b/ letter name so /ba/ Letter so so letter 2 ba ' T Usage notes The Somali alphabet follows the Arabic abjad order. See also Spanish Letter es es letter 2 be Derived terms es en B See also Swedish Etymology Likely from B movies in (sv shoddy). Letter sv sv letter 2 Symbol sv symbols sv SAB general and miscellaneous sv Ba Bb Bd Be Bf Bg Bh Bi Bk Bl Br Bs Bt Bu Bv sv zoning Area reserved for sv bostäder residential etc.. sv kvartersmark Adjective sv adjectives indication of being of lesser rank, less successful sv A sv shoddy sv colloquial low-quality, shoddy, bad sv Dialogen i filmen är rätt B The dialogue in the movie is pretty janky Derived terms sv B-aktie class B share sv B-lag second raters Noun sv nouns an academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A sv A B C D E Tagalog Etymology tl es B. Each pronunciation has a different source: Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by tl en B. Abecedario pronunciation is from tl es B. Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character tl ᜊ. Pronunciation bí<qq:letter name, Filipino alphabet> bé<qq:letter name, Abecedario> bá<qq:letter name, Abakada alphabet> +<qq:phoneme> Letter tl 2 bi fil 2 ba abak tl historical 2 be abec See also Further reading Tundra Nenets Letter yrk-tun ʙ yrk-tun obsolete yrk-tun letter the Unified Northern Alphabet Turkish Letter tr tr letter 2 be See also Vietnamese Pronunciation bê bê bò bờ Letter vi vi letter 4 bê bê bò bờ See also Welsh Pronunciation cy /biː/ standard cy /bə/ informal Letter cy cy letter 2 bi A C See also Mutation B at the beginning of words mutates to cy F in a en soft mutation, to cy M in a en nasal mutation and is unchanged by en aspirate mutation, for example with the word cy Bangor Bangor: Bangor Further reading Yoruba Pronunciation phoneme yo /b/ letter name yo /bí/ Letter yo yo letter 2 bí See also Zulu Letter zu zu letter 2 See also