Back هائية Arabic মহাপ্রাণ ও অল্পপ্রাণ ব্যঞ্জনধ্বনি Bengali/Bangla C'hwezhadur (yezhoniezh) Breton Aspiració (fonètica) Catalan Přídech Czech Aspiration (fonetik) Danish Aspiration (Phonetik) German Aspiracio Esperanto Aspiración (fonética) Spanish Aspiratsioon Estonian
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| Aspirated | |
|---|---|
| ◌ʰ | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ʰ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+02B0 |
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 and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.