Ndebe · Ńdébé
gbi
A syllable of the Ndebe syllabary: the body gb with the vowel i.
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
gbi
U+E52D
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mid tone
gbi
U+E52E
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low tone
gbi
U+E52F
Words that use it
13 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.