ב

Letter

 * 1) The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet.
 * 2) The numeral 2 in Aramaic numbering.

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Letter

 * 1) Bet, beth, vet: the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after  and before.
 * 2) The numeral 2 in Hebrew numbering.

Usage notes

 * The letter ב represents what are now the phonemes and . In Modern Israeli Hebrew, these phonemes are pronounced  and, respectively (like the ⟨b⟩ and ⟨v⟩ in English  and ). At some point in the past, these phonemes are commonly believed to have been a single phoneme , with allophones  and perhaps  or  (where  is the voiced bilabial fricative, intermediate between the voiced bilabial plosive  and the voiced labiodental fricative ). The  allophone was found word-initially, after consonants, and when geminated. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, however, the phoneme  can also occur in other contexts, especially in loanwords.
 * In writing with nikud (vowel markings and related diacritics), the letter ב takes a dagesh (בּ) when representing.
 * For information about ב as a preposition meaning roughly "in" or "with", see.

Letter

 * 1) the second letter of the Yiddish alefbeys