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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