Bet (letter)

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Bet
PhoenicianBet
Hebrew
ב
AramaicBet
Syriac
ܒ
Arabic
ب
Phonemic representationb, v
Position in alphabet2
Numerical value2
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΒ
LatinB
CyrillicВ, Б

Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt Phoenician beth.svg, Hebrew Bēt ב, Aramaic Bēth Beth.svg, Syriac Bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic Bāʾ ب. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.

The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian WIKI