U+A7B5 "ꞵ" Latin Small Letter Beta Unicode Character

U+A7B5 "ꞵ" Latin Small Letter Beta is a distinct typographic form of the Latin letter beta, primarily used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, where it represents a specialized variant of the sound /b/ in certain Latin transcriptions of Greek or in phonetic notation. It differs from the standard Greek beta (β) and the Latin B, serving as a historical glyph in Unicode's Latin Extended-D block to preserve and enable digital representation of archaic scripts and orthographic practices. Its addition supports the accurate transcription of texts such as Old English or early Irish manuscripts, where this character was employed to denote a voiced bilabial fricative or a specific allophonic variation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7B5
Version Added	8.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Beta
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7B5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7b5

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞵ" U+A7B4 Latin Capital Letter Beta
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞵ" U+A7B4 Latin Capital Letter Beta
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞵ" U+A7B4 Latin Capital Letter Beta
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞵ" U+A7B4 Latin Capital Letter Beta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower