U+0180 "ƀ" Latin Small Letter B with Stroke Unicode Character

U+0180 "ƀ" Latin Small Letter B with Stroke is a modified letter used primarily in linguistic transcription and certain orthographies to represent a voiced bilabial fricative sound, similar to the English "v" but articulated with both lips. It is formed by adding a horizontal stroke through the ascender of a standard lowercase "b" and is part of the Latin Extended-B block, often employed in the transcription of African languages such as Sandawe or in reconstructed Proto-Germanic forms. This character should not be confused with the visually similar but distinct "b with bar" used in some medieval manuscripts, as its standardized encoding serves modern phonetic and orthographic needs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0180
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter B with Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter B Bar
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0180
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000180
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0180

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƀ" U+0243 Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƀ" U+0243 Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƀ" U+0243 Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƀ" U+0243 Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower