β
Technical information
| Symbol | β | |
| Name | Greek small letter beta | |
| Unicode number | U+03B2 | |
| Category | Greek small letter normal | |
| Description | The Unicode character β, or U+03B2, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Beta". It is part of the "Greek and Coptic" block, which contains the characters used in writing the Greek language, as well as a number of symbols used in science and mathematics. This character falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category. Visually, it represents the second letter of the Greek alphabet in lowercase form. The Greek Small Letter Beta is widely used in various academic and scientific fields. In mathematics and the sciences, β often represents a type of angle, a beta particle in physics, the second variable in a sequence, or the beta coefficient in statistics, among many other uses. Its pronunciation and exact meaning can vary depending on its context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | β | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | β | |
| HTML Entity (named) | β | |
| URL Escape Code | %CE%B2 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xCE 0xB2 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11001110:10110010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x03B2 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000003B2 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u03B2" | |
| CSS Code | \03B2 | |
| JavaScript | "\u03B2" | |
| Perl | \x{03B2} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u03B2" | |
| Python 3 | \u03B2 | |
| Ruby | \u{03B2} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this β in sentence and in bold like this β and in italic like this β.
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Font size:
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12px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>β</span>
span {
content: "\03B2";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana