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Glyph for U+03B2
Source: Noto Sans

U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta

U+03B2 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous 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+03B2 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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
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*

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
Unicode 1 Name
Block Greek and Coptic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Case Folding Glyph for U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
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+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
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+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
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 Lower
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+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
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+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R