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发信人: palio (许我三个月), 信区: English
标题: B
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年12月27日18:34:30 星期五), 站内信件

B, second letter and first consonant in the English alphabet; a corresponding
symbol has the same place in the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, among
others. Today the name of the Greek letter b (beta, like the Phoenician beth)
is used in
association with alpha, in the word alphabet. The letter was derived by the
Phoenicians from the Egyptian hieroglyph for rane,� but when taken over by
them it was called beth.
The evolution of the symbol may be traced as follows:

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