Related Letters and Other Similar Characters
- Β β : Greek letter Beta
- В в : Cyrillic letter Ve
- Б б : Cyrillic letter Be
- Ɓ ɓ : Latin letter B with hook
- Ъ ъ : Cyrillic letter Yer (also known as the hard sign, back yer, or tvyordiy znak) is shaped like the letter b, but has no phonetic value on its own in modern East Slavic languages. The ъ serves as an orthographic device that indicates that the consonant preceding the ъ is not palatalized.
- Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign (also known as the front yer, or myagkiy znak) is also shaped like the letter b, but has no phonetic value on its own in modern East Slavic languages. The ь serves as orthographic device that indicates that the consonant preceding the ь is softened or palatalized.
- ẞ ß : German letter Eszett, originally a ligature of long s ⟨ſ⟩ with ⟨z⟩, now considered to stand for ⟨ss⟩.
- ב : Hebrew letter Bet
- ␢ : Space
- ♭: The flat in music, mentioned above, still closely resembles lowercase b.
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