U+0411 "Б" Cyrillic Capital Letter Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Б
U+0411 "Б" Cyrillic Capital Letter Be is the second letter of the Cyrillic alphabet and represents the voiced bilabial plosive sound /b/, similar to the English letter B. It is used in many Slavic and non-Slavic languages that employ Cyrillic script, such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. Visually, it resembles a capital Latin letter B but typically has a more rounded, full top loop and a straight vertical stem on the left side. Historically, its form derives from the Greek letter beta, though its shape was adapted in the early Cyrillic script created in the First Bulgarian Empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0411 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Be |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Б |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Б |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0411 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000411 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0411 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| Lowercase Code Point | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| Simple Case Folding | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| Case Folding | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "б" U+0431 Cyrillic Small Letter Be |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |