Letter of the Latin alphabet
B with stroke (majuscule : Ƀ , minuscule : ƀ ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet , formed from ⟨B ⟩ with the addition of a bar , which can be through either the ascender or the bowl. It is used as a phonetic symbol to represent to transcribe the sound [β ] .[ 1]
⟨Ƀ⟩ is also a letter of the alphabets of the Rade , Jarai and Katu languages of Vietnam , the Panamanian spelling of the Northern Embera language , and is used in standardized texts in Old Saxon for [v] as well as in reconstructed forms of Proto-Germanic .
Unicode
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The minuscule form has been present in Unicode since version 1 (1991), but the majuscule form was not added until version 5 (2006).
Character information
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Ƀ
ƀ
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B WITH STROKE
LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH STROKE
Encodings
decimal
hex
dec
hex
Unicode
579
U+0243
384
U+0180
UTF-8
201 131
C9 83
198 128
C6 80
Numeric character reference
Ƀ
Ƀ
ƀ
ƀ
Bitcoin
Before the introduction of the Unicode symbol, ⟨₿⟩ (U+20BF
), for the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin , the symbol for the Thai baht , ⟨฿⟩ (U+0E3F
), had sometimes been used. However, this caused possible confusion with the baht while ⟨Ƀ⟩ had no other uses related to currency. Therefore, ⟨Ƀ⟩ had been proposed as a substitute.[ 2] [ 3]
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