# щ U+0449 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA

Lowercase Cyrillic shcha, like a ш with a small descender tail, pronounced as a long soft "shch" sound in Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `щ` |
| Codepoint | U+0449 |
| Name | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA |
| Block | [Cyrillic](https://unicodekit.com/block/cyrillic) |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `щ` `щ` |
| CSS | `\449` |
| JavaScript | `\u0449` |
| UTF-8 | D1 89 |
| UTF-16 | 0449 |

## Related characters

- ш [U+0448 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0448)
- ъ [U+044A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/044A)
- ч [U+0447 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0447)
- ы [U+044B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU](https://unicodekit.com/char/044B)
- ц [U+0446 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0446)
- ь [U+044C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/044C)
- х [U+0445 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0445)
- э [U+044D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E](https://unicodekit.com/char/044D)
- ф [U+0444 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF](https://unicodekit.com/char/0444)
- ю [U+044E CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU](https://unicodekit.com/char/044E)
- у [U+0443 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U](https://unicodekit.com/char/0443)
- я [U+044F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA](https://unicodekit.com/char/044F)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/0449 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/0449