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 is used in an old orthography of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labialized voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant /ʃʷ/. It corresponds to Шә.
Computing codes
editPreview | 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Unicode Character "Ꚗ" (U+A696)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-29.