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
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
Xsampa-m.png	bilabial nasal	English	man	[]	man
Xsampa-p.png	voiceless bilabial plosive	English	spin	[]	spin
Xsampa-b.png	voiced bilabial plosive	English	bed	[]	bed
Xsampa-pslash.png	voiceless bilabial fricative	Japanese	富士山 (fujisan)	[]	Mount Fuji
Xsampa-B2.png	voiced bilabial fricative	Ewe	ɛʋɛ	[]	Ewe
IPA-voiced_bilabial_approximant.png	bilabial approximant	Spanish	lobo	[]	wolf
Xsampa-Bslash.png	bilabial trill
Xsampa-Oslash.png	bilabial click

Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: .

See also

* Place of articulation
* List of phonetics topics