Ɓ

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

Category:Latin letters with diacritics