щ

Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha

U+0449
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character щ
Decimal щ
Hex щ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0449
Decimal
1097
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Script
Cyrillic
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Uppercase
Щ U+0429

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cyrillic Small Letter Shcha.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
щ
HTML Hex
щ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D1 89
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
04 49
UTF-32 Hex
00000449
CSS Escape
\449
JavaScript Escape
\u0449
Python Escape
\u0449
URL Encoded
%D1%89
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