# ƀ U+0180 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH STROKE

## Properties

- General category: [Lowercase Letter](/unicode/categories/lowercase-letter.md) (Ll)
- Script: [Latin](/unicode/scripts/latin.md) (Latin)

## Annotations

- • Americanist and Indo-Europeanist usage for phonetic beta
- • Americanist orthographies use an alternate glyph with the stroke through the bowl
- • also used in Old Saxon manuscripts
- • uppercase is 0243
- → [U+03B2 β GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA](/unicode/U+03B2.md)
- → [U+1D6C ᵬ LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH MIDDLE TILDE](/unicode/U+1D6C.md)
- → [U+2422 ␢ BLANK SYMBOL](/unicode/U+2422.md)