U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
U+03B2 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+03B2 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Beta (UK: , US: ; uppercase Β, lowercase β, or cursive ϐ; Ancient Greek: βῆτα, romanized: bē̂ta or Greek: βήτα, romanized: víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive IPA: [b]. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative IPA: [v] while IPA: [b] in borrowed words is instead commonly transcribed as μπ. Letters that arose from beta include the Roman letter ⟨B⟩ and the Cyrillic letters ⟨Б⟩ and ⟨В⟩.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 946 |
UTF-8 | CE B2 |
UTF-16 | 03 B2 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 03 B2 |
URL-Quoted | %CE%B2 |
HTML hex reference | β |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | β |
HTML named entity | β |
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A3 5D |
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A3 5D |
Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 99 |
Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 90 |
Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | D7 |
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 C0 |
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A5 E2 |
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A3 5D |
Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | E2 |
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A5 E2 |
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 26 42 7E 7D |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 42 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 25 62 0F |
Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | E2 |
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DB 72 |
Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | E2 |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 C0 |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 C0 |
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 C0 |
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 8B |
LATEX | \beta |
AGL: Latin-5 | beta |
Adobe Glyph List | beta |
digraph | b* |
Related Characters
Greek Capital Letter BetaGlyph for U+0392 Greek Beta SymbolGlyph for U+03D0 Modifier Letter Small BetaGlyph for U+1D5D Greek Subscript Small Letter BetaGlyph for U+1D66 Mathematical Bold Capital BetaGlyph for U+1D6A9 Mathematical Bold Small BetaGlyph for U+1D6C3 Mathematical Italic Capital BetaGlyph for U+1D6E3 Mathematical Italic Small BetaGlyph for U+1D6FD Mathematical Bold Italic Capital BetaGlyph for U+1D71D Mathematical Bold Italic Small BetaGlyph for U+1D737 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital BetaGlyph for U+1D757 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small BetaGlyph for U+1D771 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital BetaGlyph for U+1D791 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small BetaGlyph for U+1D7AB
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA | |
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Greek and Coptic | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Greek | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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Any | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |