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A small capital B, for a trill made with both lips.
Also known as: ʙ, Small capital B, Lip trill
In the International Phonetic Alphabet a small capital B denotes a bilabial trill, in which both lips vibrate against each other in an airstream. It is a rare sound, best known from languages of Vanuatu and central Africa.
Denotes a bilabial trill, in which the lips are set vibrating by the airstream rather than moved deliberately.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Occurs as a phoneme in a small number of languages including Nias and several languages of Vanuatu, and is otherwise chiefly familiar as a non-linguistic gesture.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A capital letter B reduced to the height of a lower-case letter, a vertical stroke with two stacked bowls to its right.