U0448

U0448 refers to the Unicode code point U+0448, which is the Cyrillic small letter sha. In Unicode nomenclature, the official name is CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA. It belongs to the Cyrillic block in the Basic Multilingual Plane and has the general category Ll (lowercase letter). It renders as ш, and its uppercase counterpart is Ш (U+0428).

The letter is used across languages that employ the Cyrillic script, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian. It represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative, commonly transcribed as "sh" in Latin transliterations. In many transliteration schemes, such as ISO 9 and ALA-LC, U+0448 maps to the digraph "sh".

Encoding and representations: In UTF-8, U+0448 is encoded as the byte sequence D1 88. In HTML, it can be represented as ш or ш. In plain text, the character appears as ш. The uppercase form, Ш, is at U+0428, and case mapping follows the Unicode standard.

Notes: U+0448 is part of the wider set of Cyrillic letters used to write languages across Eastern Europe and northern Asia. Its common usage in words and names makes it a frequent element in Cyrillic typography and digital text handling. See also Cyrillic script, Unicode Cyrillic block, and Cyrillic letter sha for related information.