Ndebe · Ńdébé
gbụ
A syllable of the Ndebe syllabary: the body gb with the vowel ụ.
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
gbụ
U+E527
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mid tone
gbụ
U+E528
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low tone
gbụ
U+E529
Words that use it
47 of the Igbo entries here carry this syllable, shortest first. The Ndebe spelling is written under each word, and the syllable you are looking for is in it.
- gbụ
- -gbụ-
- agbụ
- gbụ̀
- ògbụ
- ọgbụ
- ụgbụ
- -gbụpù-
- -gbụtò-
- agbụrụ
- agbụsì
- -gbụcha-
- -gbụnye-
- gbụ̀cha
- ke agbụ
- mgbụgbò
- àgbụgbō
- ògbụgbọ
- -ke agbụ-
- gbụ asụ̄
- m̀gbụ̀rị
- àgbụ̀gbà
- ògbụ chī
- -fie agbụ-
- -gbụ mgbụ-
- -gbụ àgbụ-
- -gbụchapù-
- ọ̀gbụụ̄tā
- gbụcha ọnụ
- gbụ̄ āgbụ̄
- -gbụcha ọnū-
- ife ōgbụgba
- mgbụgbō ārụ
- -kpo àgbụgbō-
- agbụ̀rụ̀gada
- gbụ ọnụmmiri
- mgbụ ākwụkwọ
- mgbụgbō ākwa
- nsìnàgbụ̀rụ̀
- àkpa āgbụgbō
- -gbụ ọnụ mīli-
- ọ̀gbụ̀gbàndụ̀
- -gbụ ọnụ mmīli-
- ego mgbụdamgbụ
- ògbụgba ākwụkwọ
- -kpo àgbụgbọ -kpocha A.- - .
- -kpọ mbụ = -kpọ mgbụ -kpọ nkụ- = - -