Latin Capital Letter B
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 66 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter b.
- Alt code
- Alt+66
- HTML entity
- B
- Unicode
- U+0042
About this symbol
B comes from beth, the Phoenician letter whose name meant house, perhaps from a drawing of a simple shelter. It became the Greek beta, and alpha and beta together gave the word alphabet.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.