Greek Small Letter Beta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Beta has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- β
- Unicode
- U+03B2
About this symbol
Beta comes from beth, the Phoenician letter whose name meant house, and with alpha it gave us the word “alphabet”. Ernest Rutherford named beta rays in 1899, as the second kind of radiation he identified.
Software borrowed the letters for its testing stages: an alpha version is tried inside a company, and a beta version goes out to users to test before release.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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