U+03B2 "β" Greek Small Letter Beta Unicode Character

U+03B2 "β" Greek Small Letter Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet, used extensively in modern Greek writing and as a mathematical, scientific, and engineering symbol. In mathematics and physics, it commonly denotes beta decay, beta coefficients in statistics, the angle beta in geometry, and the beta function or beta distribution. In finance, it represents the systematic risk of an asset relative to the market. As a Unicode character, it was encoded in version 1.1 of the standard in 1993, allowing it to be reliably used in digital text across different platforms and fonts without ambiguity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03B2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Beta
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	β
HTML Hex Encoding	β
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03B2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003B2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03b2

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Β" U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Β" U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Uppercase Code Point	"Β" U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Titlecase Code Point	"Β" U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower