Appendix:Variations of "b"

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The letter “b” is subject to a range of variations through capitalization and use in different scripts. These include:

Capitalization and punctuation

• b
• B
• b.
• B.
• b'
• b-
• B−
• B-
• B+
• -b

Diacritics

• B́ - majuscule, with acute above
• b́ - miniscule, with acute above
• Ḃ - majuscule, with dot above
• ḃ - miniscule, with dot above
• Ḅ - majuscule, with dot below
• ḅ - miniscule, with dot below
• Ḇ - majuscule, with underline
• ḇ - minuscule, with underline
• Ƀ - majuscule, with stroke
• ƀ - minuscule, with stroke
• ᵬ - minuscule, with middle tilde
• ᶀ - minuscule, with lower hook
• Ɓ - majuscule, with upper hook
• ɓ - minuscule, with upper hook
• Ƃ - majuscule, Zhuang variation
• ƃ - minuscule, Zhuang variation
• ꞗ - miniscule, with flourish
• Ꞗ - majuscule, with flourish
• - minuscule, with left hook

Ligatures

• ȸ
• ℔

Other encodings

Other representations of B:

NATO phonetic: Bravo Morse code: –··· Braille: ⠃ ASL Manual: B

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Other scripts

Arabic

• ب

Aramaic

• ב־

Armenian

• Բ - majuscule
• բ - minuscule

Braille

• ⠃

Burmese

• ဘ

Coptic

• ⲃ
• Ⲃ

Cyrillic

• б
• б.
• Б
• в
• В
• В.
• в.
• в-

Glagolitic

• Ⰱ
• ⰱ

Gothic

• 𐌱

Greek

• Β, β (βήτα, beta)
• Βʹ, βʹ
• ͵Β, ͵β

Hangeul

• ㅂ (b, “bieup”)

Hebrew

• ב (beth)
• ב-‏
• ב־

Ogham

• ᚁ

Phoenician

• 𐤁

Sanskrit

• ब
• भ

Yiddish

• בֿ

Zhuang

• Ƅ
• ƅ

(They were used as tone marks.)

Other

• 㠯

Fraktur

• Upper case: 𝔅 (normal), 𝕭 (bold)
• Lower case: 𝔟 (normal), 𝖇 (bold)

Symbols

• ฿ (symbol for the baht, the currency of Thailand)
• ₿ (symbol for the bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency)
• ♭ (musical symbol for 'flat')
• ℬ (mathematical)
• ␢ (computing)
• 🅱️ (supposedly standing for the blood group B; replaces plosive letters to make sport)

IPA

• ʙ
• ɓ
• ᶀ (obsolete)

Numerical combinations

• 1B
• 2B
• 3B
• 4B
• 5B
• 6B
• B4

Similar symbols

• ß the German ligature Eszett looks like a Greek beta, but is unrelated.
• The Cyrillic б is notably similar in appearance to the numeral 6.
• Chinese radical 阝 (3 strokes), meaning 'place', has a shape similar to B; however, it is pronounced fù or yì.
• The letter ᗷ of the Carrier syllabary resembles a "B"; the letter ᗺ, its inverted form. Other symbols in the same syllabary that resemble rotated forms of this Latin letter include ᗵ and ᗶ.
• The form of Cherokee Ᏼ (yv) is copied from that of the Latin letter, but it represents an unrelated syllable.
• The number 13 may be confused with a capital B when handwritten.