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'''Be''' (Б, б; italics <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Б'', ''б''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic alphabet]].

It commonly represents the [[voiced bilabial plosive]] {{IPA|/b/}}, similar to the English pronunciation of the [[B|Latin letter B]].

In the romanization systems for the [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] languages, the letter Be is romanized using the Latin letter B.

==History==
Both the Cyrillic letters Be and [[Ve]] (В, в) were derived from the [[Beta (letter)|Greek letter Beta]] (Β, β).

In the [[Early Cyrillic alphabet]] the name of the letter Be was {{Script|Cyrs|боукы}} (''buky''), meaning "letters".

In the [[Cyrillic numerals|Cyrillic numeral system]], the letter Be had no numeric value because the letter Ve inherited the Greek letter Beta's numeric value.

== Form ==
[[Image:Б Cambria.svg|thumb|100px|left|Printed forms]]
The lowercase letter Be has a different printed form in the Serbian/Macedonian alphabet, as shown in the illustration which shows both the standard and variant form.

[[Image:02-Russian alphabet-Б б.svg|thumb|left|[[Cursive]] forms]]
The cursive form of the lowercase letter Be may look like the lowercase [[Delta (letter)|Greek letter Delta]] (δ).

The letter Be is similar in shape to the [[6 (number)|digit 6]]. It should not be confused with the [[Ve (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Ve]] (В, в), which is shaped like Latin capital letter B but represents the sound {{IPA|/v/}}, the [[voiced labiodental fricative]].

==Usage==
In [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], the letter Be generally represents the [[voiced bilabial plosive]] {{IPA|/b/}}, but word-finally or before a voiceless [[consonant]] it also represents the voiceless {{IPA|[p]}}, and before a [[palatalizing]] vowel it represents {{IPA|/bʲ/}}.

==Code positions==
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! [[Character encoding]] !! [[Case (orthography)|Case]] !! [[Decimal]] !! [[Hexadecimal]] !! [[Octal]] !! [[Binary numeral system|Binary]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Unicode]]||[[Majuscule|Capital]]||align="right"|1041||align="right"|0411||align="right"|002021||align="right"|0000010000010001
|-
| |[[Lower case|Small]]||align="right"|1073||align="right"|0431||align="right"|002061||align="right"|0000010000110001
|-
|rowspan=2|[[ISO 8859-5|ISO 8859-5]]||Capital||align="right"|177||align="right"|b1||align="right"|261||align="right"|10110001
|-
| |Small||align="right"|209||align="right"|d1||align="right"|321||align="right"|11010001
|-
|rowspan=2|[[KOI 8|KOI 8]]||Capital||align="right"|226||align="right"|e2||align="right"|342||align="right"|11100010
|-
| |Small||align="right"|194||align="right"|c2||align="right"|302||align="right"|11000010
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Windows 1251|Windows 1251]]||Capital||align="right"|193||align="right"|c1||align="right"|301||align="right"|11000001
|-
| |Small||align="right"|225||align="right"|e1||align="right"|341||align="right"|11100001
|}

==See also==
[[B|B, b (Latin)]]
[[Ve (Cyrillic)|В, в - Ve (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Beta (letter)|Β, β - Beta (Greek)]]