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Ш

Also known as Ša, Sha, Cyrillic Sha

letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script

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"Ш" is a letter used in the Cyrillic script (the alphabet used for Russian and other Slavic languages) that represents a specific consonant sound. It comes from the Glagolitic script, an early alphabet used in Slavic regions before Cyrillic became the standard writing system.

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Unicode character: ш
Commons category: Cyrillic Sha
Commons gallery: Ш

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Sha, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book. It shows Shuty ("jesters") and sharʺ ("sphere"). Sha, alternatively transliterated Ša (Ш ш; italics: Ш ш or Ш ш; italics: Ш ш) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/, like the pronunciation of sh in "shoe". More precisely, the sound in Russian denoted by ш is often falsely transcribed as a palatoalveolar fricative, but is actually a voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/. 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, Latvian and Lithuanian.