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beta

Second letter of the Greek alphabet

Also known as β · Β · Greek letter beta · beta letter

Instance of: Greek letter
, IPA symbol
Part of: Greek alphabet
, International Phonetic Alphabet

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Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive IPA: [b]. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative IPA: [v], while IPA: [b] in borrowed words is instead commonly transcribed as μπ. Letters that arose from beta include the Roman letter ⟨B⟩ and the Cyrillic letters ⟨Б⟩ and ⟨В⟩.

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26 statements · 12% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Follows: Α/α
Followed by: Γ
Based on: 𐤁
Different from: Ꞵ
B/b
В
ß
Depicted by: Β
β
Unicode character: Β applies to part: uppercase · unicode code point: 0392 · html entity: Β
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Sources
1.codepoints.net/U+0392
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β applies to part: lowercase · unicode code point: 03B2 · html entity: β
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Sources
1.codepoints.net/U+03B2
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13 identifiers linking beta across the web's reference databases

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