Ndebe · Ńdébé
bẹ
A syllable of the Ndebe syllabary: the body b with the vowel ẹ.
The three tones
Tone is part of the character in Ndebe, not a mark added to it, so one syllable is written three different ways. These are the same shape family — the character on the left in each box is the one to learn first, and it is the form the chart shows.
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high tone
bẹ
U+E554
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mid tone
bẹ
U+E555
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low tone
bẹ
U+E556
Words that use it
No published entry in this dictionary uses this syllable yet. The chart still shows it, because a syllabary is the whole set of its characters rather than the ones that happen to appear in a word list — but there is nothing here to read it in.