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Ɓ (lowercase: ɓ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. It is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to show a special sound.

What it sounds like

• ɓ makes a sound called a voiced bilabial implosive. This means you make the sound by closing your lips and then opening them while making a noise with your voice.

Where it is used

• ɓ is used in some African languages like Fula and Hausa. These languages use this letter to write words that have the special sound.

How it looks in writing

• Uppercase: Ɓ
• Lowercase: ɓ

Examples

• In the Fula language, the word “fulɓe” means a person from the Fulani people.
• In Hausa, the word “ɓaɓɛua” means quarreling.

Unicode

• The letter ɓ has special codes in computers:
  • Uppercase Ɓ: U+0181
  • Lowercase ɓ: U+0253