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Cyrillic letter Ve
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Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Ѓ	Д
Ђ	Е	Ё	Є	Ж	З	Ѕ
И	І	Ї	Й	Ј	К	Ќ
Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О	П
Р	С	Т	Ћ	У	Ў	Ф
Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш	Щ	Ъ
Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic Letters
Ӑ	Ә	Ӕ	Ҕ	Ӗ	Ғ	Ӏ
Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӣ
Ӥ	Ҡ	Қ	Ҟ	Ҝ	Ң	Ҥ
Ө	Ӧ	Ҧ	Ҫ	Ҷ	Ҹ	Ӵ
Ҽ	Ҿ	Ҩ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҭ	Ҵ
Ӳ	Ӯ	Ү	Ұ	Ӱ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

Ve (В, в) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound /v/. It is shaped exactly like a capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.

This letter and б are derived from Greek Beta (Β, β), which, evidently, already represented /v/ in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created. The old name for в was Vedi and it had numerical value of two in the old system of Cyrillic numerals. It looks like the capital letter B of the Latin alphabet.

In Russian, its phonemic representation is similar to English /v/ except word-finally (when it is represents a voiceless [f]) and before a palatalizing vowel when it represents /vʲ/.

In standard Ukrainian pronunciation (based on the Poltava dialect), B represents a sound like an English W ([w]) when in the word final position.

e.g. Владислав (Vladyslaw)

Additionaly some Ukrainians also use such pronunciation in words where the letter is directly proceeded by a consonant, while others pronounce all occurrences of the letter В as /w/. In Eastern Ukraine, the letter В may be devoiced to [f], but this is considered a Russification, as word final devoicing does not occur in standard Ukrainainian.

e.g. standard Ukrainian pronunciation of the word сказав ('he said') is skazaw. However in Eastern Ukraine one is likely to hear the Russified skazaf (with final devoicing).

In the Belarussian language, the letter B only represents the sound /v/. In the word final position, or if directly proceeded by a consonant it mutates to the letter Ў, a unique Belarussian letter representing the sound /w/.

e.g. the Belarussian noun 'language' is мова (mova), but the adjectival form is моўный (mownyy), and the genitive plural of the noun (formed by removing the final a) is моў (mow).

[edit] Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1042	0412	002022	0000010000010010
	Small	1074	0432	002062	0000010000110010
ISO 8859-5	Capital	178	b2	262	0010110010
	Small	210	d2	322	0011010010
KOI 8	Capital	247	f7	367	0011110111
	Small	215	d7	327	0011010111
Windows 1251	Capital	194	c2	302	0011000010
	Small	226	e2	342	0011100010

Its HTML entities are: В or В for capital and в or в for small letter.

[edit] See also

• Be
• Beta,
• B
• V

bg:В de:We (Kyrillisch) eo:Ve (cirila alfabeto) eu:Ve (Ziriliko) fi:В fr:Ve (cyrillique) gl:Ve (Cirílico) he:В it:В (Cirillico) ja:В ko:В nn:В no:В pl:В pt:Ve (cirílico) ru:В (кириллица) sr:В (ћириличко) sv:В zh:В