The Hebrew letter bet ⟨ ב⟩ is a separate development of the Phoenician letter. The Egyptian hieroglyph for the consonant /b/ had been an image of a foot and calf ⟨ ⟩, but bēt (Phoenician for "house") was a modified form of a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ⟨ ⟩ adapted from the separate hieroglyph Pr ⟨ ⟩ meaning "house". The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician letter bēt ⟨ □⟩. The Roman ⟨B⟩ derived from the Greek capital beta ⟨ Β⟩ via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈ b iː/), plural bees. B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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