U+0182 "Ƃ" Latin Capital Letter B with Topbar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0182 "Ƃ" Latin Capital Letter B with Topbar is a distinct letter in the Latin script, formed by adding a horizontal bar across the top of a standard capital B. It was historically used in the orthography of certain African languages, most notably the old Bassa alphabet, where it represented a specific sound distinct from the plain B. In modern usage, this character is rarely seen in everyday writing but remains available in the Unicode standard for historical text preservation and specialized linguistic transcription. Its inclusion ensures that scholarly documents and digital archives can accurately represent the original written forms of languages that employed this unique letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0182 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter B with Topbar |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter B Topbar |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0182 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000182 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0182 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| Case Folding | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƃ" U+0183 Latin Small Letter B with Topbar |
| 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 | Upper |