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Glyph for U+0181
Source: Noto Sans

U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook

U+0181 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0180 to U+024F Latin Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its lowercase variant Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0181 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Ɓ (minuscule: ɓ), called "B-hook" or "B with a hook", is a letter of the Latin alphabet and the International African Alphabet. Its lower-case form, ɓ, represents a voiced bilabial implosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is used to spell that sound in various languages, notably Fula and Hausa. It was also formerly used in or at least proposed for Xhosa and Zulu.

In Unicode, the upper case Ɓ is in the Latin Extended B range (U+0181), and the lower case ɓ is in the IPA range (U+0253). In Shona the upper case form is a just a larger form of the lower case letter.

Representations

System Representation
385
UTF-8 C6 81
UTF-16 01 81
UTF-32 00 00 01 81
URL-Quoted %C6%81
HTML hex reference Ɓ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ɓ
AGL: Latin-5 uni0181
Adobe Glyph List Bhook

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B WITH HOOK
Unicode 1 Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B HOOK
Block Latin Extended-B
General Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Case Folding Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0181 Latin Capital Letter B with Hook
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0253 Latin Small Letter B with Hook
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R