Ve

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Cyrillic letter Ve
Cyrillic numerals: 2
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0412
minuscule: U+0432
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	Ꙗ
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

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.

In Russian, its phonemic representation is similar to English /v/ except at the end of a word (when it 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. Because of this, it is not uncommon to see transliterations of words ending in в, end in "w", for example, Владислав = Vladyslaw.

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 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 Ukrainian.

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 Belarusian 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 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 в only represents the sound /v/.

Code positions

See also

• Be (Cyrillic)
• Beta (letter)
• B
• V
• W