Be (Cyrillic)
, a
voiced bilabial plosive similar to the English pronunciation of
b. In the
Russian language,
б may also represent a voiceless word-finally or before a voiceless
consonant, and a before a
palatalizing vowel. It looks approximately like a
figure 6, and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter
Ve, which is shaped like Latin capital letter
B and indicates , 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.
The old name for
б was
Buki. It had no numerical value.
Its
HTML entities are: Б or Б for capital and б or б for small letter.
*
Ve,
B,
Beta
