In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| bilabial nasal | English | man | man | ||
| voiceless bilabial stop | English | spin | spin | ||
| voiced bilabial stop | English | bed | bed | ||
| voiceless bilabial fricative | Japanese | 富士山 (fujisan) | Mount Fuji | ||
| voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | Ewe | ||
| bilabial approximant | Spanish | lobo | wolf | ||
| bilabial trill | Nias | simbi | lower jaw | ||
| bilabial ejective | Adyghe | пӀэ | meat | ||
| bilabial click | Nǁng | ʘoe | meat | ||
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial stops: . Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita.