U+1DE9 "ᷩ" Combining Latin Small Letter Beta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1DE9 "ᷩ" Combining Latin Small Letter Beta is a diacritical mark used in historical and scholarly text encoding, specifically designed to be placed above or attached to a base Latin letter to modify its pronunciation. This combining character represents a small, superscript form of the Latin letter beta, and is primarily employed in medievalist or linguistic notation to indicate a specific phonetic quality, such as a fricative or voiced bilabial sound, in transliterations of ancient or non standard scripts. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates precise digital representation of manuscript annotations, paleographic studies, and phonetic transcription where a compact beta symbol is needed without disrupting the base character's line spacing.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᷩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᷩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xB7 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1DE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001DE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1de9 |
Unicode Properties