U+0448 Cyrillic Small Letter Sha
U+0448 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha and its titlecase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0448 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Sha (Ш ш; italics: Ш ш) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/. More precisely, the sound in Russian denoted by ш is commonly transcribed as a palatoalveolar fricative but is actually a voiceless retroflex fricative. It is used in every variation of the Cyrillic alphabet for Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
In English, Sha is romanized as sh or as š, the latter being the equivalent letter in the Latin alphabets of Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1096 |
| UTF-8 | D1 88 |
| UTF-16 | 04 48 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 48 |
| URL-Quoted | %D1%88 |
| HTML hex reference | ш |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ш |
| HTML named entity | ш |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AC EA |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A7 EA |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | DB |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | DB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | F8 |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrsh |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii10090 |
| Adobe Glyph List | shacyrillic |
| digraph | s% |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Sha | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Sha | |
| R |