Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:

IPA	Description	Example
IPA	Description	Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	bilabial nasal	English	man	['*æn]*	man
	voiceless bilabial plosive	English	spin	[spɪn]	spin
	voiced bilabial plosive	English	bed	[bɛd]	bed
	voiceless bilabial fricative	Japanese	富士山 (fujisan)	[ɸuʝisaɴ]	Mount Fuji
	voiced bilabial fricative	Dutch	waar	[βaɾ]	authentic
	voiced bilabial approximant	Spanish	lobo	[loβ̞o]	wolf
	bilabial trill
	bilabial click

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