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.