Beta

The letter Β had the largest number of highly divergent local forms.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, Greek minuscule beta denotes a voiced bilabial fricative [β].

[8][9] The term has been used as a pejorative self-identifier among members of manosphere communities, particularly incels, who do not believe they are assertive or traditionally masculine, and feel overlooked by women.

In some high-quality typesetting, especially in the French tradition, a typographic variant of the lowercase letter without a descender is used within a word for ancient Greek: βίβλος is printed βίϐλος.

[13] In typesetting technical literature, it is a commonly made mistake to use the German letter ß (a s–z or s–s ligature) as a replacement for β.

[14] "Beta" can be used to refer to several consumer and professional videotape formats developed by Japan's Sony Corporation.

The Greek alphabet on an ancient black figure vessel, with the characteristically angular beta of the time