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U+03B2 · GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA

Greek Small Letter Beta

  • CodepointU+03B2
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
  • Decimal946
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03B2 (β) is GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA, a lowercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+0392 Β.

How to type β

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE B22 bytes
UTF-1603B21 code unit
UTF-32000003B24 bytes
HTML namedβnamed character reference
HTML decimalβ
HTML hexβ
CSS\3B2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03B2
JSON\u03B2
Python\u03B2
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA}by name
Java / C#\u03B2
C / C++\u03B2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3B2}
Go\u03B2
Ruby\u03B2
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(946)
URL-encoded%CE%B2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+00DFßLatin Small Letter Sharp S U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol U+1E9EẞLatin Capital Letter Sharp S U+1D6C3𝛃Mathematical Bold Small Beta U+1D6FD𝛽Mathematical Italic Small Beta U+1D737𝜷Mathematical Bold Italic Small Beta U+1D771𝝱Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Beta U+1D7AB𝞫Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Beta U+13F0ᏰCherokee Letter Ye U+A7B5ꞵLatin Small Letter Beta U+A7D6ꟖLatin Capital Letter Middle Scots S
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Characters built on β

U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol U+1D6C3𝛃Mathematical Bold Small Beta U+1D6FD𝛽Mathematical Italic Small Beta U+1D737𝜷Mathematical Bold Italic Small Beta U+1D771𝝱Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Beta U+1D7AB𝞫Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Beta U+1D5DᵝModifier Letter Small Beta U+1D66ᵦGreek Subscript Small Letter Beta
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03ACάGreek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos U+03ADέGreek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos U+03AEήGreek Small Letter Eta with Tonos U+03AFίGreek Small Letter Iota with Tonos U+03B0ΰGreek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos U+03B1αGreek Small Letter Alpha U+03B3γGreek Small Letter Gamma U+03B4δGreek Small Letter Delta U+03B5εGreek Small Letter Epsilon U+03B6ζGreek Small Letter Zeta U+03B7ηGreek Small Letter Eta U+03B8θGreek Small Letter Theta