Be (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Be | ||||||
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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 | ||||
Be (Б, б) is the second letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents /b/, a voiced bilabial plosive similar to the English pronunciation of b. In the Russian language, б may also represent a voiceless [p] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant, and a [bʲ] before a palatalizing vowel.
It looks approximately like a figure 6, and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter в (called ve), which is shaped like Latin capital letter B and indicates /v/, the voiced labiodental fricative. Both letters are derived from Greek beta. When hand-written, the lower-cased б may look like the lower-cased delta, δ.
The old name for б was Buki. It had no numerical value. The letter в inherited beta's numeric value in the old system of Cyrillic numerals, so б had none.
[edit] Code positions
| Character encoding | Case | Decimal | Hexadecimal | Octal | Binary |
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| Unicode | Capital | 1041 | 0411 | 002021 | 0000010000010001 |
| Small | 1073 | 0431 | 002061 | 0000010000110001 | |
| ISO 8859-5 | Capital | 177 | b1 | 261 | 0010110001 |
| Small | 209 | d1 | 321 | 0011010001 | |
| KOI 8 | Capital | 226 | e2 | 342 | 0011100010 |
| Small | 194 | c2 | 302 | 0011000010 | |
| Windows 1251 | Capital | 193 | c1 | 301 | 0011000001 |
| Small | 225 | e1 | 341 | 0011100001 |
Its HTML entities are: Б or Б for capital and б or б for small letter.
