B with top bar

Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Б.
Representative glyphs for Ƃ and ƃ

The Latin letter B with top bar, Ƃ (minuscule: ƃ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Cyrillic Б б in appearance.

It was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986, when it was replaced by the digraph mb. It has also sometimes been used for the uppercase form of Ɓ ɓ, for example in Shona.

The letter first appeared in Unicode version 1.1.0 in June 1993.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B WITH TOPBAR' (U+0182)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
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