Bet Symbol ℶ
Symbol Meaning
The letter “Bet” is present in the Hebrew alphabet and Yiddish language. It comes from the word “bayit” (house) and is a pictogram that schematically represents a house with a roof, foundation, and an open entrance. The Bet symbol is considered to have a mystical meaning, as it is the first letter of the Tanakh — the Jewish Bible.
The Bet letter is used to denote the power of a set in mathematics. In this case, a subscript is added to the symbol. The letter is also used as an abbreviation of the Hebrew word for “not”. It can also be used to decorate text, draw attention to a headline, nickname, or other important information.
The symbol “Bet Symbol” is included in the “Hebrew letterlike math symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
second transfinite cardinal (the continuum).
| Unicode Name | Bet Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℶ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Hebrew letterlike math symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2136 |
| Simple case change | 2136 |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 B6 | 226 132 182 | 14845110 | 11100010 10000100 10110110 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 36 | 33 54 | 8502 | 00100001 00110110 |
| UTF-16LE | 36 21 | 54 33 | 13857 | 00110110 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 36 | 0 0 33 54 | 8502 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00110110 |
| UTF-32LE | 36 21 00 00 | 54 33 0 0 | 908132352 | 00110110 00100001 00000000 00000000 |