U+A7B4 "Ꞵ" Latin Capital Letter Beta Unicode Character

U+A7B4 "Ꞵ" Latin Capital Letter Beta is a distinct glyph used primarily in certain African languages, such as some variations of the Gbaya language, where it represents a voiced bilabial fricative sound, similar to the English "v" but pronounced with both lips. Despite sharing its name with the Greek letter beta, this character is part of the Latin script and was added to Unicode to support phonetic transcription and orthographic needs in African linguistics. Its design resembles an uppercase "B" with a closed or rounded top, distinguishing it graphically from the standard Latin B and the Greek beta.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7B4
Version Added	8.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter Beta
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞵ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7b4

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	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
Simple Case Folding	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
Case Folding	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞵ" U+A7B5 Latin Small Letter Beta
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