Shcha
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| Cyrillic letter Shcha | ||||||
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| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0429 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0449 | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
| Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
| П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
| Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ꚉ | Ӗ | Ӂ |
| Җ | Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ |
| Ԇ | Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ |
| Ԉ | Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ |
| Ԣ | Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ԥ |
| Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
| Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
| Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
| Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Shcha (Щ щ; italics: Щ щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Russian, it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕɕ/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in sheep (but longer); in Ukrainian and Rusyn it represents the consonant cluster /ʃt͡ʃ/; and in Bulgarian, it represents the consonant cluster /ʃt/.
In English, Shcha is romanized as ⟨shch⟩ or ⟨šč⟩ (with hačeks), both reflecting the historical Russian pronunciation of the letter. This can lead to some confusion, as the ⟨ch⟩ in the transcription may seem to indicate that Щ is a combination of Ш and a strong Ч, which is not true.
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[edit] History
The Cyrillic letter Shcha was derived from the Glagolitic letter Shta Ⱋ (
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The name of Shcha in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was шта (šta). This name is preserved in the modern Bulgarian language - it is pronounced "штъ".
Historically in Russian, Shcha represented the consonant cluster /ɕt͡ɕ/[citation needed], like in the phrase "fresh cheese." Some Russian language primers still prescribe /ɕtɕ/.
[edit] Form
The form of the letter Shcha is the letter Cyrillic Sha (Ш ш) with a descender (cf. the Cyrillic letters De (Д д), Tse (Ц ц), Ka with descender (Қ қ), and En with descender (Ң ң)).
[edit] Related letters and other similar characters
- Ш ш : Cyrillic letter Sha
[edit] Computing codes
| character | Щ | щ | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1065 | 0429 | 1097 | 0449 |
| UTF-8 | 208 169 | D0 A9 | 209 137 | D1 89 |
| Numeric character reference | Щ | Щ | щ | щ |
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 253 | FD | 221 | DD |
| Code page 855 | 250 | FA | 249 | F9 |
| Code page 866 | 153 | 99 | 233 | E9 |
| Windows-1251 | 217 | D9 | 249 | F9 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 201 | C9 | 233 | E9 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 153 | 99 | 249 | F9 |
[edit] External links
The Wiktionary entry for Щ- The Wiktionary entry for щ
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