Voiceless bilabial fricative | |
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? | |
IPA Number | 126 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ɸ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0278 |
X-SAMPA | p\ |
Braille | ![]() ![]() |
Audio sample | |
The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨?⟩.
Features of the voiceless bilabial fricative:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Ainu[] | [?u?t?i] | 'grandmother' | |||
Angor[] | fi | [?i] | 'body' | ||
Bengali | Eastern dialects | ?? | [l] | 'fruit' | Allophone of in Bangladesh and Tripura, /p?/ used in Western dialects. |
Ewe[1] | é?á | [é?á] | 'he polished' | Contrasts with /f/ | |
Italian | Tuscan[2] | i capitani | [i?hä?i'?ä:ni] | 'the captains' | Intervocalic allophone of .[2] See Italian phonology and Tuscan gorgia. |
Itelmen | ?? | [t?u?t?u?] | 'rain' | ||
Japanese[3] | / fuhai | [hai] | 'decay' | Allophone of before /?/. See Japanese phonology | |
Kaingang | fy | [] | 'seed' | ||
Korean | / hudugae | [udug?] | 'epiglottis' | Allophone of before /u/. See Korean phonology | |
Kwama[] | [kò:] | 'basket' | |||
Mao[] | ['?] | 'empty' | |||
M?ori | whakapapa | [?akapapa] | 'genealogy' | ||
Nepali | ? | [bä?] | 'vapour' | Allophone of /p?/. See Nepali phonology | |
Odoodee[] | pagai | [?i] | 'coconut' | ||
Spanish | Some dialects [4][5] | fuera | ['?wea?] | 'outside' | Non-standard variant of /f/. See Spanish phonology |
Standard European[6] | pub | ['pa] | 'pub' | An approximant; allophone of /b/ before a pause.[6] | |
North-Central Peninsular[7] | abdicar | [aði'ka] | 'abdicate' | Allophone of /b/ in the coda. In this dialect, the unvoiced coda obstruents - /p, t, k/ - are realized as fricatives only if they precede a voiced consonant; otherwise, they emerge as stops. | |
Southern Peninsular[8] | los vuestros | [l '?:wt:] | 'yours' | It varies with [?:] in some accents. Allophone of /b/ after /s/. | |
Shompen[9] | [ko?eoi] | 'bench' | |||
Sylheti | ? | [?ua] | 'boy' | ||
Tahitian | ʻ?f? | [?o:?i:] | 'snake' | Allophone of /f/ | |
Turkish | Some speakers[10] | ufuk | [u'?uk] | 'horizon' | Allophone of /f/ before rounded vowels and, to a lesser extent, word-finally after rounded vowels.[10] See Turkish phonology |
Turkmen | fabrik | [?abrik] | 'factory' |