Shwe (Cyrillic)

Shwe (Ꚗ ꚗ; italics: Ꚗ ꚗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[1] It resembles the letter Sha (Ш ш; Ш ш) with a long tail attached to its bottom.

Shwe
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ʃʷ/
History
Transliterations	Ş̌ ş̌
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Shwe is used in an old orthography of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labialized voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant /ʃʷ/. It corresponds to Шә.^[2]

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꚗ		ꚗ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHWE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHWE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42646	U+A696	42647	U+A697
UTF-8	234 154 150	EA 9A 96	234 154 151	EA 9A 97
Numeric character reference	Ꚗ	Ꚗ	ꚗ	ꚗ

See also

• Ш ш : Cyrillic letter Sha
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode