Transliteration Alphabet Tables

Every letter the transliteration tool knows, laid out chart by chart.

Transliteration rewrites words letter by letter into another alphabet, so Москва becomes Moskva. Translation would give you the English word Moscow instead. The charts below use practical BGN style romanization for Russian and Ukrainian, a modern Greek scheme, the official Latin alphabet for Serbian, and a phonetic typing map for Latin to Russian.

How Each Script Maps to Latin

Russian Cyrillic to Latin

The letters English lacks get two character combinations: ж = zh, х = kh, ц = ts, ч = ch, ш = sh, щ = shch, ё = yo. Hard and soft signs are dropped. Хрущёв comes out as Khrushchyov.

Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin
А а	a	Б б	b	В в	v	Г г	g
Д д	d	Е е	e	Ё ё	yo	Ж ж	zh
З з	z	И и	i	Й й	y	К к	k
Л л	l	М м	m	Н н	n	О о	o
П п	p	Р р	r	С с	s	Т т	t
У у	u	Ф ф	f	Х х	kh	Ц ц	ts
Ч ч	ch	Ш ш	sh	Щ щ	shch	Ъ ъ	dropped
Ы ы	y	Ь ь	dropped	Э э	e	Ю ю	yu
Я я	ya

Ukrainian Cyrillic to Latin

Ukrainian reads differently from Russian in a handful of places: г = h while ґ = g, и = y, і = i, ї = yi, є = ye. Київ comes out letter by letter as Kyyiv.

Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin
А а	a	Б б	b	В в	v	Г г	h
Ґ ґ	g	Д д	d	Е е	e	Є є	ye
Ж ж	zh	З з	z	И и	y	І і	i
Ї ї	yi	Й й	y	К к	k	Л л	l
М м	m	Н н	n	О о	o	П п	p
Р р	r	С с	s	Т т	t	У у	u
Ф ф	f	Х х	kh	Ц ц	ts	Ч ч	ch
Ш ш	sh	Щ щ	shch	Ь ь	dropped	Ю ю	yu
Я я	ya	ʼ	dropped

Greek to Latin

A modern Greek scheme: θ = th, χ = ch, ψ = ps, η = i, υ = y, with the digraphs ου = ou, γγ = ng, αυ = av and ευ = ev. Accented vowels convert like their plain forms. ψυχή comes out as psychi.

Greek	Latin	Greek	Latin	Greek	Latin	Greek	Latin
Α α	a	Β β	v	Γ γ	g	Δ δ	d
Ε ε	e	Ζ ζ	z	Η η	i	Θ θ	th
Ι ι	i	Κ κ	k	Λ λ	l	Μ μ	m
Ν ν	n	Ξ ξ	x	Ο ο	o	Π π	p
Ρ ρ	r	Σ σ ς	s	Τ τ	t	Υ υ	y
Φ φ	f	Χ χ	ch	Ψ ψ	ps	Ω ω	o
ΟΥ ου	ou	ΑΥ αυ	av	ΕΥ ευ	ev	ΓΓ γγ	ng
ΓΚ γκ	gk	ΓΧ γχ	nch	ΓΞ γξ	nx

Latin to Russian Cyrillic

For typing Russian on a Latin keyboard: write phonetically and the tool builds the Cyrillic. Combinations match longest first, which is why shchuka becomes щука rather than с+h+ч. An apostrophe gives the soft sign, a double apostrophe the hard sign, so zhizn' becomes жизнь.

You type	You get	You type	You get	You type	You get	You type	You get
shch / sch	щ	zh	ж	kh	х	ts	ц
ch	ч	sh	ш	yo / jo	ё	yu / ju	ю
ya / ja	я	eh	э	'	ь	''	ъ
a	а	b	б	c	ц	d	д
e	е	f	ф	g	г	h	х
i	и	j	й	k	к	l	л
m	м	n	н	o	о	p	п
q	к	r	р	s	с	t	т
u	у	v / w	в	x	кс	y	ы
z	з

Serbian Cyrillic to Latin

Serbian is the easy one: the language officially uses both alphabets with an exact one to one mapping, including the digraph letters љ = lj, њ = nj and џ = dž. Београд comes out as Beograd.

Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin
А а	a	Б б	b	В в	v	Г г	g
Д д	d	Ђ ђ	đ	Е е	e	Ж ж	ž
З з	z	И и	i	Ј ј	j	К к	k
Л л	l	Љ љ	lj	М м	m	Н н	n
Њ њ	nj	О о	o	П п	p	Р р	r
С с	s	Т т	t	Ћ ћ	ć	У у	u
Ф ф	f	Х х	h	Ц ц	c	Ч ч	č
Џ џ	dž	Ш ш	š

To put any of these charts to work, head back to the live transliteration tool and start typing.