U+0448 "ш" Cyrillic Small Letter Sha Unicode Character

U+0448 "ш" Cyrillic Small Letter Sha is a letter used in the Cyrillic script, representing the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the "sh" in English "ship". It is the twenty-sixth letter in the Russian alphabet and corresponds to the uppercase form "Ш" (U+0428). This character is a standard component of numerous Slavic and non-Slavic languages that employ Cyrillic, including Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, where it consistently denotes the same or a very similar sound. Its visual shape is thought by some etymologists to derive from the Hebrew letter Shin (ש), reflecting historical connections in the development of writing systems under Cyrillic's creator, Saint Cyril.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0448
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Sha
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ш
HTML Hex Encoding	ш
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0448
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000448
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0448

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ш" U+0428 Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ш" U+0428 Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha
Uppercase Code Point	"Ш" U+0428 Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha
Titlecase Code Point	"Ш" U+0428 Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower