U+0429 "Щ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shcha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0429 "Щ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Shcha is a letter from the Cyrillic script, representing a voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative sound typically transliterated as "shch" in English. It is predominantly used in the Russian and Ukrainian alphabets, where it denotes a long or geminate soft /ɕː/ sound, though its phonetic value varies across other Cyrillic-using languages. The character visually resembles a combination of the letters Ш (Sha) and a descender tail, distinguishing it from similar glyphs. In Unicode, it occupies the range for Cyrillic capital letters and is commonly employed in digital text to accurately represent words in languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0429 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Shcha |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Щ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Щ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0429 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000429 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0429 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| Simple Case Folding | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| Case Folding | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "щ" U+0449 Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |