Ve with caron (В̌ в̌; italics: ''В̌ в̌'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...

. It is used in the Shughni and Wakhi languages, where it represents the

voiced labial–velar approximant The voiced labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the letter in the English alphabet;; ''see'' the examples on the fifth page. likewise, the s ...

, 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 A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diac ...

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

either; it has to be composed as В+

caron A caron or háček ( ), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. Typographers tend to use the term ''caron'', while linguists prefer ...

Related letters and other similar characters

Computing codes

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