б

Character	б
Unicode name	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE
Cyrillic	U+0431

See also Appendix:Variations of "b"

Translingual

Cyrillic letter Б б (B b), normal above, italics below.

Handwritten forms

Etymology

From early Cyrillic letter Ⰱ, buky.

Letter

Wikipedia

б (lower case, upper case Б)

1. The second letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Related terms

• b (Latin alphabet)

See also

• Appendix:Cyrillic script
• Entries in the English Wiktionary beginning with б
• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet

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Russian

Letter

б (lower case, upper case Б)

1. The second letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is бэ (bɛ) and it has the sound of English b. It is preceded by А and followed by В.

Particle

б, бы (b, by) (conditional particle)

1. б is the short form of бы, a verbal particle used to render conditional and subjunctive patterns:

   Я говорил — I spoke

   Я б говорил — I would (should) have spoken; I would speak; I might speak

   Я говорил бы — I would (should) have spoken; I would speak; I might speak

N.B. — бы is the third-person singular aorist of быть (to be), an otherwise obsolete Russian tense.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet
• Search en.wiktionary.org for articles beginning with: Б, б

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /b/

Letter

б (lower case, upper case Б)

1. The 2nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet.

Usage notes

Its name is б (бɛ) and its has the sound of English b.

See also

• Previous letter: а
• Next letter: в