aspiration

Also known as aspirated consonant

strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or closure of some obstruents

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Unicode hex: U+02B0

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In phonetics, aspiration is a 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 North American languages, South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

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