U+0392 "Β" Greek Capital Letter Beta Unicode Character

U+0392 "Β" Greek Capital Letter Beta is the uppercase form of the second letter in the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial plosive sound equivalent to the English "B". It is distinct from the visually similar Cyrillic letter "В" and the Latin letter "B", each of which has different phonetic values and Unicode codepoints. This character is widely used in Greek writing, mathematical notation, and scientific contexts, notably as a symbol for beta particles, beta functions in mathematics, and brainwave types in neuroscience.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0392
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Beta
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Β
HTML Hex Encoding	Β
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0392
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000392
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0392

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
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Lowercase Code Point	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Simple Case Folding	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Case Folding	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"β" U+03B2 Greek Small Letter Beta
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
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