U+10901 Phoenician Letter Bet
U+10901 was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Phoenician script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+10901 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bΔΚΎ Ψ¨β, Aramaic bΔαΉ― π‘, Hebrew bΔt Χβ, Phoenician bΔt π€, and Syriac bΔαΉ― ά. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop β¨bβ© or the voiced labiodental fricative β¨vβ©.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bΔ«tu, bΔtu, Hebrew: bayΔ«αΉ―, Phoenician bΔt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Ξ, Ξ²), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be (Π, Π±) and Ve (Π, Π²).
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| NΒΊ | 67841 |
| UTF-8 | F0 90 A4 81 |
| UTF-16 | D8 02 DD 01 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 09 01 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%90%A4%81 |
| HTML hex reference | 𐤁 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ð€ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 31 E9 35 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| PHOENICIAN LETTER BET | |
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