B
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See also: b and Appendix:Variations of "b"
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Etymology 1
From the Etruscan letter 𐌁 (b, be), from the Ancient Greek letter Β (B, beta), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤁 (b, bet), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓉐.
Letter
B (lower case b)
- The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Usage notes
The letter B (usually its lower case form b) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (/b/).
See also
Etymology 2
Symbol
B
- A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. They can receive blood from type B or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or A.
- (chemistry) Chemical symbol for boron.
- Eleven, especially used in the base more than eleven, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.
- The equivalent numbers of decimal 1611 are duodecimal B23, hexadecimal 64B, vigesimal 40B and so on.
- (biochemistry) As an IUPAC code for amino acids, aspartic acid or asparagine.
- (physics) A magnetic flux density.
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a labial consonant
- (linguistics) low tone (e.g. in French-language text)
- (finance) Long-term bond credit rating by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, indicating that a bond is highly speculative with high risk of default.
- (clothing) Bra cup size.
- Symbol for basement.
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See also
- (blood type): from antigen B
- (symbol for boron): abbreviation of boron
- (hexadecimal 11): The eleventh item from the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}
Other representations of B:
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Blagar
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Ido
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Itelmen
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Kildin Sami
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Nupe
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