Ve with caron
Cyrillic letter used for /w/ in Shughni and Wakhi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ve with caron (В̌ в̌; italics: В̌ в̌) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
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| Ve with caron | |
|---|---|
| В̌ в̌ | |
| В̆ в̆ | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /w/ |
| History | |
| Variations | В̆ в̆ |
It is used in the Shughni and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced labial–velar approximant /w/, like the pronunciation of ⟨w⟩ in "wait".
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ԝ ԝ: Cyrillic letter We
- W w: Latin letter W
- Ў ў: Cyrillic letter Short U
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter В̌ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as В+caron.
| Preview | В | в | ̌ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE | COMBINING CARON | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1042 | U+0412 | 1074 | U+0432 | 780 | U+030C |
| UTF-8 | 208 146 | D0 92 | 208 178 | D0 B2 | 204 140 | CC 8C |
| Numeric character reference | В | В | в | в | ̌ | ̌ |
| Named character reference | В | в | ||||
See also
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