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ℶ
U+2136 · BET SYMBOL

Bet Symbol

  • CodepointU+2136
  • NameBET SYMBOL
  • Decimal8502
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2136 (ℶ) is BET SYMBOL, a letter in the Letterlike Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+05D1 ב (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+05D1 ב. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ℶ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 B63 bytes
UTF-1621361 code unit
UTF-32000021364 bytes
HTML named&beth;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8502;
HTML hex&#x2136;
CSS\2136in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2136
JSON\u2136
Python\u2136
Python\N{BET SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u2136
C / C++\u2136universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2136}
Go\u2136
Ruby\u2136
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8502)
URL-encoded%E2%84%B6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+05D1 ב
NFKDU+05D1 ב
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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+05D1בHebrew Letter Bet
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+2130ℰScript Capital E U+2131ℱScript Capital F U+2132ℲTurned Capital F U+2133ℳScript Capital M U+2134ℴScript Small O U+2135ℵAlef Symbol U+2137ℷGimel Symbol U+2138ℸDalet Symbol U+2139ℹInformation Source U+213A℺Rotated Capital Q U+213B℻Facsimile Sign U+213CℼDouble-Struck Small Pi