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'Be' (Б, б) is the second letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents , 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 before a palatalizing vowel.
The old name for б was ''Buki''. It had no numerical value. The letter в inherited beta's numeric value in the old system of Cyrillic numerals, so б had none.

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Form

It looks approximately like a figure ''6'', and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter в (called 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.

Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1041	0411	002021	0000010000010001
	Small	1073	0431	002061	0000010000110001
ISO 8859-5	Capital	177	b1	261	0010110001
	Small	209	d1	321	0011010001
KOI 8	Capital	226	e2	342	0011100010
	Small	194	c2	302	0011000010
Windows 1251	Capital	193	c1	301	0011000001
	Small	225	e1	341	0011100001

Its HTML entities are: Б or Б for capital and б or б for small letter.

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