β Greek Small Letter Beta

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Upper and lower case

• Β U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta — Uppercase

Nearby in Greek and Coptic

• Ϊ U+03AA Greek Capital Letter Iota With Dialytika
• Ϋ U+03AB Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Dialytika
• ά U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha With Tonos
• έ U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon With Tonos
• ή U+03AE Greek Small Letter Eta With Tonos
• ί U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota With Tonos
• ΰ U+03B0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dialytika And Tonos
• α U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
• γ U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma
• δ U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
• ε U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
• ζ U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
• η U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta
• θ U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
• ι U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
• κ U+03BA Greek Small Letter Kappa

All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Greek and Coptic (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for β?

Use the named entity β, or β (decimal) or β (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+03B2?

CE B2 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CE%B2.

How do I write U+03B2 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u03B2. Python: \u03B2.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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