Shcha (Щ)
Cyrillic script • phonetic specimen
Classification
Cyrillic letter (Щ / щ), commonly transliterated as Shcha, Shta, or Scha.
Phonetics
In Russian, it represents /ɕː/, a long voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative.
In Ukrainian and Rusyn, it corresponds to /ʃt͡ʃ/.
In Bulgarian, it is realized as /ʃt/.
Usage notes
In most non-Slavic Cyrillic orthographies, it appears primarily in loanwords and names,
often approximated as /ʃ/.