U+0243 "Ƀ" Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ƀ
U+0243 "Ƀ" Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke is a modified version of the standard Latin letter B, distinguished by a horizontal stroke through its vertical stem, which was historically used in certain alphabets to represent a distinct sound, such as a bilabial fricative, though it is now primarily employed in linguistic transcription and the orthography of a few African languages like the Mfumte language of Cameroon. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is classified as a uppercase letter, with its lowercase counterpart being the stroked b (U+0180).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0243 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter B with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0243 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000243 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0243 |
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 | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƀ" U+0180 Latin Small Letter B with Stroke |
| 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 |