Ve with caron

Ve with caron (В̌ в̌; italics: В̌ в̌) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Ve with caron
В̌ в̌
В̆ в̆
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/w/
History
Variations	В̆ в̆
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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.

Character information

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

• Cyrillic script in Unicode