U+03B2 "β" Greek Small Letter Beta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Greek Small Letter Beta
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Greek