Latin Small Letter B
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 98 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter b.
- Alt code
- Alt+98
- HTML entity
- b
- Unicode
- U+0062
About this symbol
The lowercase b, d, p and q are the same shape turned or flipped, which is why children learning to read so often mix them up. The small b grew out of the capital in Roman handwriting, when scribes dropped its top loop to write faster.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER B
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.