B̤ē

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Arabic alphabet
ا    ب    ت    ث    ج    ح
خ    د    ذ    ر    ز    س
ش    ص    ض    ط    ظ    ع
غ    ف    ق    ك    ل
م    ن    ه‍    و    ي
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B̤ē is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, derived from bāʼ (ب) with an additional dot. It is not used in Arabic itself, but is used to represent a voiced bilabial implosive (IPA: /ɓ/) when writing Hausa and Sindhi in the Arabic script. The same sound may also be written simply as bāʼ in Hausa, undifferentiated from /b/.

Contextual forms
Final	Medial	Initial	Isolated
ﭓ	ﭕ	ﭔ	ﭒ

Both Hausa and Sindhi are also written in scripts besides Arabic. The sound represented by b̤ē is written Ɓ ɓ in Hausa's Latin orthography, and written ॿ in Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.