Ⰱ

See also: ⰱ

Ⰱ U+2C01, Ⰱ
GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER BUKY
← Ⰰ
[U+2C00] 		Glagolitic Ⰲ →
[U+2C02]

Translingual

Etymology

Source unknown.[1] Possibly Hebrew בּ (bet)[2] or Aramaic ܒ (bīt).[3] Samaritan ࠌ (mim) is similar in appearance, but mirrored.

Letter

Ⰱ (buky)

  1. The second letter of the Glagolitic alphabet.
  • Lower case: ⰱ

References
  1. Schenker, Alexander M. (1995) “Early writing”, in The Dawn of Slavic: An introduction to Slavic philology, New Haven, CT/London, UK: Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 168–172
  2. Ilievski, Petar H.R. (2002) “Glagolica: An iconic script for visual evangelic preaching”, in Illinois Classical Studies‎, volumes 27–28, →ISSN, →JSTOR, archived from the original on 2020-10-03, pages 153–164
  3. Jung, Hakyung (2013 January) “On the origin of the Glagolitic alphabet”, in Scripta‎, volume 5, archived from the original on 2021-10-07, pages 105–130
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