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Wikipedia: Be (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter Be
Cyrillic letter Be - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0411
minuscule: U+0431
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 ОУ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ
Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ    
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

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 Russian amd Bulgarian, ‹б› may also represent a voiceless [p] word-finally or before a voiceless consonant, and /bʲ/ before a palatalizing vowel.

In Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian, ‹б› is romanized as the Latin letter ‹B›.

The old name for ‹б› was Buki. It had no numerical value. ‹В› inherited beta's numeric value in the old system of Cyrillic numerals, so ‹б› had none.

Form

Capital Be along with both standard and Serbian/Macedonian variants of lowercase Be.
Be in cursive.

Though its physical appearance is approximately similar to a figure 6, it 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.

Code positions

Character encoding Case Decimal Hexadecimal Octal Binary
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

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