U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha
U+0449 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0449 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Shcha (Щ щ; italics: Щ щ), Shta, Scha, Šče or Sha with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Russian, it represents the long voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕː/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in Welsh-sheep. In Ukrainian and Rusyn, it represents the consonant cluster /ʃt͡ʃ/, something like cash-chest. In Bulgarian, it represents the consonant cluster /ʃt/. Most other non-Slavic languages written in Cyrillic use this letter to spell the few loanwords that use it or foreign names; it is usually pronounced /ʃ/, an approximation of the Russian pronunciation of the letter, and is often omitted when teaching those languages.
In English, Russian Shcha is romanized as ⟨shch⟩, ⟨ŝ⟩, ⟨šč⟩ (with háčeks) or occasionally as ⟨sch⟩, all reflecting the historical Russian pronunciation of the letter (as a combined Ш and Ч). English-speaking learners of Russian are often instructed to pronounce it in this way although it is no longer the standard pronunciation in Russian (it still is in Ukrainian and Rusyn, as above). The letter Щ in Russian and Ukrainian corresponds to ШЧ in related words in Belarusian.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1097 |
UTF-8 | D1 89 |
UTF-16 | 04 49 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 04 49 |
URL-Quoted | %D1%89 |
HTML hex reference | щ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | щ |
HTML named entity | щ |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC EB |
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | E9 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | E9 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 EB |
Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | DD |
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | DD |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | F9 |
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | F9 |
LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrshch |
Adobe Glyph List | afii10091 |
Adobe Glyph List | shchacyrillic |
digraph | sc |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA | |
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Cyrillic | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Cyrillic | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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Other | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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ambiguous | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
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not a number | |
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