Ve (Cyrillic)

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Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Ve (В, в; italics: В, в) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It commonly represents the sound /v/, like the English pronunciation of the Latin letter V.

The capital letter Ve is shaped exactly like a capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.

In romanization Ve is usually represented using the Latin letter V.

Contents 1 History 2 Usage 3 Code positions 4 See also

History

Ve and the Cyrillic letter Be (Б, б) were both derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β, β), which already represented /v/ in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created.

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was вѣдѣ (vědě), meaning "I know".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ve had the value of 2.

Usage

In Russian and Bulgarian, Ve generally represents /v/, but at the end of a word or before voiceless consonants it represents the voiceless [f] and before a palatalizing vowel it represents /vʲ/.

In standard Ukrainian pronunciation (based on the Poltava dialect), Ve represents a sound like the English W ([w]) when in the word final position. Because of this, it is not uncommon to see words ending in ‹в› transcribed to end in ‹w›, for example, Владислав = Vladyslaw for Vladislav.

Additionally, some Ukrainians also use such pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant, while for others all occurrences of the letter Ve denote /w/. In Eastern Ukraine, the letter Ve may represent a devoiced [f], but this is considered a Russification, as word final devoicing does not occur in standard Ukrainian. For example, the standard Ukrainian pronunciation of the word сказав (being said) is /skazaw/. However in Eastern Ukraine one is likely to hear the Russified [skazaf] (with final devoicing).

In the Belarusian language, the letter Ve represents only the sound /v/. In the word final position, or if directly proceeded by a consonant, it mutates to the letter Short U (Ў, ў), a unique Belarusian letter representing the sound /w/ e.g., the Belarusian noun 'language' is мова (mova), but the adjectival form is моўны (mowny), and the genitive plural of the noun (formed by removing the final ‹а›) is моў (mow).

In Serbian, the letter Ve represents only the sound /v/.

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	10110010
	Small	210	d2	322	11010010
KOI 8	Capital	247	f7	367	11110111
	Small	215	d7	327	11010111
Windows 1251	Capital	194	c2	302	11000010
	Small	226	e2	342	11100010

See also

• B, b (Latin)
• V, v (Latin)
• W, w (Latin)
• Б, б - Be (Cyrillic)
• Β, β - Beta (Greek)