Щ
Щщ
The Щ ( lowercase letter щ ) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet . The debate is different depending on the language, for example in Russian [ ɕ (ː) ] , the Bulgarian [ ʃt ] .
Today the Russian Щ is classified as a voiceless alveolopalatal fricative , the length of the finale varies.
Transliteration
This letter is the most difficult letter of the Cyrillic alphabet to romanize, usually it is rendered like a combination of Ш and Ч, in the German transcription so shtsch , in English shch . The Bulgarian Щ is transcribed according to the pronunciation sht and in English sht . The corresponding scientific transliterations are usually šč for Russian and št for Bulgarian or according to ISO 9 ŝ (regardless of the source language).
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Щ | Minuscule щ | |
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| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 0429 | U + 0449 |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA | |
| UTF-8 | D0 A9 | D1 89 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
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