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Beta (UK: / ˈ b iː t ə /, US: / ˈ b eɪ t ə /; uppercase Β, lowercase β, or cursive ϐ; Ancient Greek: βῆτα, romanized: bē̂ta or Greek: βήτα, romanized: víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2.
The Greek alphabet was the model for various others: [8] Most of the Iron Age alphabets of Asia Minor were adopted around the same time, as the early Greek alphabet was adopted from the Phoenician. The Lydian and Carian alphabets are generally believed to derive from the Greek alphabet, although it is not clear which variant is the direct ancestor.
The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style. This is in line with the convention that variables should be italicized. As Greek letters are more often than not used as variables in mathematical formulas, a Greek letter appearing similar to the TeX rendering ...
This is a list of letters of the Greek alphabet. The definition of a Greek letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of "Greek" and the general category of "Letter". An overview of the distribution of Greek letters is given in Greek script in Unicode.
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4]Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
Latin Beta Nonstandard IPA, Gambon languages /β/ Gabon Languages Scientific Alphabet ; cf. Greek Β β: ᴄ: Small capital C FUT [2] /t̬͡s/ Ↄ ↄ Reversed C Claudian letters [9] /(b~p)s/ Ꭓ ꭓ Chi Nonstandard IPA /χ/ Lepsius Standard Alphabet /x/ Teuthonista [4] /ç/ or /ʝ/ ꭕ Chi with low left serif ꭔ Chi with low right ring Ð ð ...
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A superscript small-cap W may be distinct from a superscript lowercase w in italic typeface, as in this phonetic notation. Consolidated, the Unicode standard contains superscript and subscript versions of a subset of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters. Here they are arranged in alphabetical order for comparison (or for copy and paste convenience).