plosive

adj. (In phonetics) produced by stopping the air in the speech passage and suddenly releasing it (such as the sounds of the consonants "b," "p," and "t"); of or pertaining to speech sound produced by stopping the air in the speech passage and suddenly releasing it

A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. The terms plosive and stop are usually used interchangeably, but they are not perfect synonyms. Plosives are stops with a pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. The term is also used to describe oral (non-nasal) stops. Many use the term nasal continuant rather than nasal stop to refer to sounds like [n] and [m]. One should be aware that this article treats these "nasal continuants" as nasal stops.
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Noun
1. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
(synonym) stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound
(hypernym) consonant
(hyponym) labial stop
(part-meronym) implosion
Adjective
1. produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release with a burst of air (as `p' and `d' in `pit' or `dog')
(similar) hard

Audible breath which accompanies the articulation of certain types of sound. The consonant sounds in Mandarin Chinese can be grouped in aspirated (plosive) and non-aspirated (non-plosive). The aspirated consonants have a rather explosive pronunciation, while the non-aspirated consonants are more silent. The aspirated consonant sounds in Mandarin Chinese are written with "P", "K", "T", "C", "CH" and "Q" in Pinyin-transliteration. The non-aspirated counterparts to the same sounds are "B", "G", "D", "Z", "ZH" and "J". Please note that all these sounds are searchable with this very glossary!

Further reading: Chinese phonetics