ɓ

Latin Small Letter B With Hook

U+0253
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ɓ
Decimal ɓ
Hex ɓ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0253
Decimal
595
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Uppercase
Ɓ U+0181

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

U+0062 U+0314
This is an IPA phonetic character. See its usage in the International Phonetic Alphabet. IpaLookup →

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Small Letter B With Hook.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ɓ
HTML Hex
ɓ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C9 93
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
02 53
UTF-32 Hex
00000253
CSS Escape
\253
JavaScript Escape
\u0253
Python Escape
\u0253
URL Encoded
%C9%93
Have a string containing this character? Decode it to see every codepoint. UnicodeDecoder →

Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Latin Small Letter B With Hook as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.