U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
U+03B2 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Greek Capital Letter Beta and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Beta.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 E2 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 C2 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | E2 |
| LATEX | \beta |
| AGL: Latin-5 | beta |
| Adobe Glyph List | beta |
| digraph | b* |
Related Characters
- Greek Capital Letter Beta
- Greek Beta Symbol
- Modifier Letter Small Beta
- Greek Subscript Small Letter Beta
- Mathematical Bold Capital Beta
- Mathematical Bold Small Beta
- Mathematical Italic Capital Beta
- Mathematical Italic Small Beta
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Beta
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Beta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Beta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Beta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Beta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Beta
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Beta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Beta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Beta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Beta | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Beta | |
| R |