Ve with caron
{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /w/ in Shughni and Wakhi}}
{{Unreferenced|date=October 2023}}
{{infobox grapheme
| script = Cyrillic
| type = Alphabet
| typedesc = ic
| name = Ve with caron
| image =
| imagesize = 140px
| imagealt =
| phonemes = /{{IPA link|w}}/
| number =
| fam1 =
| variations = В̆ в̆
| letter = В̌ в̌
}}
Ve with caron (В̌ в̌; italics: В̌ в̌) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is used in the Shughni and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced labial–velar approximant {{IPA|/w/}}, 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 in Unicode either; it has to be composed as В+caron.
{{charmap
|0412|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve
|0432|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Ve
|030C|name3=Combining Caron}}