High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ve ( , ) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound /v/. It is shaped exactly like a capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently. This letter and are derived from Greek Beta ( , ) , which, evidently, already represented /v/ in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created. The old name for was Vedi and it had numerical value of two in the old system of Cyrillic numerals.