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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	'm'an	['']	man
Xsampa-p.png	voiceless bilabial plosive	English	s'p'in	['']
Xsampa-b.png	voiced bilabial plosive	English	'b'ed	['']	bed
Xsampa-pslash.png	voiceless bilabial fricative	Japanese	富士山 ('f'ujisan)	['']	Mount Fuji
Xsampa-B2.png	voiced bilabial fricative	Ewe	ɛ'ʋ'ɛ	['']	Ewe
	bilabial approximant	Spanish	lo'b'o	['']	wolf
Xsampa-Bslash.png	bilabial trill
Xsampa-Oslash.png	bilabial click

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

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★ Place of articulation

★ List of phonetics topics