Ve (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter B.
Cyrillic letter Ve
Numeric value: 2
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̄А̊А̃ӒӒ̄Ә
Ә́Ә̃ӚӔҒГ̧Г̑
Г̄ҔӺӶԀԂ
ԪԬӖЕ̄Е̃
Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜԄ
ҘӞԐԐ̈ӠԆӢ
И̃ҊӤҚӃҠҞ
ҜԞԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪԌҬ
ԎУ̃ӮӰӰ́Ӳ
ҮҮ́ҰХ̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦҴҶ
ӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

Ve в; italics: В в) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative /v/, like v in "very".

The capital letter Ve looks the same as the capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.

Ve is romanized usually by the Latin letter V but sometimes the Latin letter W (such as in Polish or German).

History

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

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

In the Cyrillic numeral system, it 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]. 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 this pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant, while for others all occurrences of the letter Ve denote [w]. In the Eastern Ukraine, the letter Ve may represent a voiceless [f], but this is considered a Russianism, 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 the Eastern Ukraine one is likely to hear the Russified [skazaf] (with final devoicing).

In Belarusian, 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), a 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/.

In Macedonian the letter is used for the sound /v/, but if the letter appears at the end of the word then it is pronounced as /f/. An example of this is the word бев [bɛf] ('I was').

In Slovene and Tuvan, it is used for /ʋ/.

In Mongolian and Kalmyk, it is used for /w/.

Computing codes

Character В в
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ROUNDED VE
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1042 U+0412 1074 U+0432 7296 U+1C80
UTF-8 208 146 D0 92 208 178 D0 B2 225 178 128 E1 B2 80
Numeric character reference В В в в ᲀ ᲀ
KOI8-R and KOI8-U 247 F7 215 D7
CP 855 236 EC 235 EB
Windows-1251 194 C2 226 E2
ISO-8859-5 178 B2 210 D2
Mac Cyrillic 130 82 226 E2
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