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as·pi·rated con·so·nant

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  1. Aspirated consonant

    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages (including Indian ones) and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive. In dialects with aspiration, to feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say spin [spɪn] and then pin [pʰɪn]. One should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with spin.

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  1. Aspirated consonant

    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say pin and then bin. One should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with bin. In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in bin. The diacritic for aspiration in the International Phonetic Alphabet is a superscript "h", ⟨⟩. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+02B0 ʰ modifier letter small h. Unaspirated consonants are not normally marked explicitly, but there is a diacritic for non-aspiration in the Extensions to the IPA, the superscript equal sign, ⟨⟩. The term "aspiration" is sometimes also used for the replacement of a consonant with an sound, but that process is more accurately termed debuccalization.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of aspirated consonant in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of aspirated consonant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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    an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
    A moan
    B conceal
    C inspire
    D emerge

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