Ve (Cyrillic)
| 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 | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Ve (В, в; italics: В, в) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It commonly represents the sound /v/, like the English pronunciation of the Latin letter V.
The capital letter Ve is shaped exactly like a capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.
In romanization Ve is usually represented using the Latin letter V.
History
Ve and the Cyrillic letter Be (Б, б) were both derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β, β), which already represented /v/ in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created.
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was вѣдѣ (vědě), meaning "I know".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ve 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] and 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 such pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant, while for others all occurrences of the letter Ve denote /w/. In Eastern Ukraine, the letter Ve may represent a devoiced [f], but this is considered a Russification, 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 Eastern Ukraine one is likely to hear the Russified [skazaf] (with final devoicing).
In the Belarusian language, 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, 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 Ve represents only the sound /v/.
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 | 10110010 |
| Small | 210 | d2 | 322 | 11010010 | |
| KOI 8 | Capital | 247 | f7 | 367 | 11110111 |
| Small | 215 | d7 | 327 | 11010111 | |
| Windows 1251 | Capital | 194 | c2 | 302 | 11000010 |
| Small | 226 | e2 | 342 | 11100010 |