Modifier Letter Small Capital B

It marks a bilabial trilled release after another consonant.

This small-capital B modifier appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system for writing speech sounds. In [b𐞄], it marks a b sound released with a lip trill, rather than adding another plain letter.

An Avava-language transcription published in 2006 shows this mark; 2006 dates the publication, not the mark’s origin. The wider small-capital tradition appears in medieval Icelandic writing, where small capitals marked doubled consonants, and in Uralic phonetic notation, where the unraised ʙ marked a b sound made with reduced voicing.

How do I type 𐞄?

Use an app’s hexadecimal Unicode picker if it has one.

To type 𐞄 with Unicode, enter the value shown in the character facts in an app’s hexadecimal Unicode picker. Keyboard shortcuts depend on your operating system and app.

Use the dedicated character instead of applying superscript formatting to B: visual superscripting can lose modifier status, while the encoded character preserves it. A font also needs a glyph for 𐞄 to display its intended form.

Is 𐞄 the same as ʙ?

No. ʙ is the standalone small-capital letter.

In the IPA, ʙ represents a voiced bilabial trill, where both lips vibrate. Uralic phonetic notation uses the unraised form for a b sound made with reduced voicing. Some alphabets for writing other languages in Latin letters also used unraised ʙ as a lowercase b. 𐞄 is the raised modifier, used after a consonant to mark a trilled release.