Voiceless bilabial plosive

The voiceless bilabial stop is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is . The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "p" as in pear and paper.

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Language  Word  IPA Meaning Adyghe  /paio  'hat' Arabic  Algerian  /pāpīš  'beautiful girls'Hejazi/pōl'Paul'Egyptian/kabš'ram' ArmenianEastern /papik  'grandpa' Assyrian ܦܬܐ    'face' Basque    'to catch' Bengali  Eastern  পানি/panī  'water' Catalan      'fear' Chinese Cantonese   /     'explosion' Mandarin   / bàozhà  Chuvashпутене/putene[put̬ʲɛ'nɛ]'quail' Czech     'dog' Danish  Standard      'book' Dutch     English  pack   'pack' Esperanto     'time' Filipino      'duck'  Finnish     'grandpa' French     'apple' German      'pile' Greek     'leg' Gujarati  /pag   'foot' Hebrew /pakid  'clerk'  Hindustani  Urdu پل/pal 'moment' Hindi  / pal Hungarian      'pope'  Italian     'dad' Japanese   /    'mailbox' Kabardian  /pė  'nose' Khmer   /     'to explain' Korean     'light'KurdishNorthern'hair'Central/píroze'lammergeier'Southern/pûûnga'pennyroyal' Lakota  púza   'dry'Lithuanianpastatas[ˈpaːstɐtɐs]'building' Luxembourgish      'cheap' Macedonian  пее/pee  'sing' Malay  panas   'hot' Maltese     'appetite' Marathi  /paa'uus/pā'ūs  'rain' Mutsun      'a sore' Nepali /pitā 'father' Norwegian     'dad' Odia  /pathara    'stone' Pashto  /pa'nir 'cheese'Persianپول/pul'money' Pirahã    'otter' Polish     'belt' Portuguese     'father' Punjabi ਪੱਤਾ/pattaa/pattā  'leaf' Romanian      'step' Russian  /plod   'fruit' Serbo-Croatian   /     'drink'  Slovak     'dog' Spanish     'weight'Swahilipombe'beer' Swedish     'monkey'Thai/[pɛ̂ːŋ]'powder' Tsez  пу/pu  'side' Turkish     'pot' Ukrainian /pavuk  'spider' Vietnamese    'tweezers'Welshsiop[ʃɔp]'shop' West Frisian    'pan' Yi  /    'exchange' Central Alaskan Yup'ik    'daughter' Zapotec Tilquiapan pan  'bread'

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Category:Consonants