U+0432 "в" Cyrillic Small Letter Ve Unicode Character

U+0432 "в" Cyrillic Small Letter Ve is the lowercase form of the Cyrillic letter Ve, which represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound /v/, similar to the English letter "v" in "vine". It is used in the alphabets of multiple languages that employ the Cyrillic script, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Bulgarian. The character derives from the early Cyrillic alphabet, where it was based on the Greek letter Beta (β) though it later came to resemble the Latin letter B in its uppercase form. As of the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Cyrillic block, with its uppercase counterpart being U+0412 "В" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0432
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ve
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	в
HTML Hex Encoding	в
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0432
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000432
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0432

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"В" U+0412 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"В" U+0412 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve
Uppercase Code Point	"В" U+0412 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve
Titlecase Code Point	"В" U+0412 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower