Voiceless bilabial plosive

IPA mark	p
IPA number	101
IPA character description	Latin minuscule p
Unicode	U + 0070 (p)
HTML (dec.)	& # 112;
X-SAMPA	p
Kirshenbaum	p
Audio sample ? / i [ pa ʔapa ] Audio sample ? / i [ apa ] aspirated ? / i [ apʰa ]

The voiceless bilabiale plosive (a voiceless , with two lips formed plosive ) is a consonant , which articulates is by air is jammed behind the closed lips and suddenly escapes while the vocal folds rest.

Varieties

description	IPA
aspirated	pʰ
labialized	pʷ
palatalized	pʲ
no audible lock release	p̚
voiced	p̌
tensed	p͈
ejective	pʼ

languages

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the voiceless bilabial plosive in different languages:

• German [ p, pʰ ]: P, p
• English [ p, pʰ ]: P, p
• French [⁠ p ⁠] : P, p
• Altgriechisch [⁠ p ⁠] : Π (U + 03A0), π (U + 03C0); [ pʰ ]: Φ, φ
• Neugriechisch [⁠ p ⁠] : Π (U + 03A0), π (U + 03C0)
• Hindi : प (U + 092A)
• Italian [⁠ p ⁠] : P, p
• Russian : П (U + 041F), п (U + 043F)
• Spanish [⁠ p ⁠] : P, p
• Persian [ p, pʰ ]: پ

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].