Ve (Cyrillic)
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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), в 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 for others all occurrences of the letter в denote /w/. In Eastern Ukraine, the letter в may represent a devoiced [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 в 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 а) 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.
