Щ

Also known as Shcha, Cyrillic Shcha, sh

thumb|Shcha, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921). The illustration depicts (shchuk), "pike (fish)|pike" (acc. pl.). Shcha (Щ щ; italics: Щ щ or Щ щ; italics: Щ щ), Shta, or Scha is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Russian, it represents the long (sometimes short) voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative , similar to the pronunciation of sh in 'sheep'. In Bulgarian, it represents the consonant cluster , like the pronunciation of “scht” in Borscht. In Ukrainian and Rusyn, it represents the consonant cluster . Most other non-Slavic languages written in Cyrillic use this

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Щ (Shcha) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and other languages, representing various fricative and consonant cluster sounds similar to the "sh" sound in English. It matters because it is an essential character for correctly writing and pronouncing words in these Slavic languages.

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Key facts

Grapheme.script: Cyrillic
Grapheme.type: Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc: ic
Grapheme.name: Shcha
Grapheme.image: Cyrillic letter Shcha - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Grapheme.imageclass: skin-invert-image
Grapheme.phonemes: [], [], []
Grapheme.fam1: Ⱋ ⱋ
Grapheme.equivalents: Shch shch, Šč šč, Ŝ ŝ
Grapheme.letter: Щ щ
Grapheme.language: Old Church Slavonic
Grapheme.unicode: U+0429, U+0449

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Article · Português

Shcha (Щ, щ) é a quinquagésima primeira letra do alfabeto cirílico. No russo moderno, soa como fricativo alvéolo palatal surda, um som inexistente na língua portuguesa, parecido com mexendo , mas seria similar ao som da letra Ш (cha) com a língua nos dentes inferiores. O seu equivalente polonês é szcz. Uma forma de diferenciar, apesar dessa letra ser pouco usada, seria como um som mais suave que a letra ш, como na palavra "chiclete" diferente da palavra "chocolate" que seria escrita com ш, de som mais forte.

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