Russian Transliteration & Virtual Keyboard

Type Latin letters on your standard keyboard to generate Russian Cyrillic phonetically (e.g. type privet to get привет), or click the letters below.

Type Latin / English letters:

Russian Cyrillic Output:0 characters

Click to insert Cyrillic character:

Phonetic Transliteration Rules

Our instant transliterator converts QWERTY Latin characters directly into their Russian equivalents using the standard phonetic mapping:

shch → щ

yo → ё

zh → ж

ch → ч

sh → ш

yu → ю

ya → я

ts → ц

kh → х

How to Add the Russian Keyboard to Windows & Mac

Windows 11: Settings → Time & Language → Language & Region → Add a language → Select Russian (Phonetic). This allows you to type Russian on your physical QWERTY layout without memorizing JCUKEN key positions!
macOS: System Settings → Keyboard → Input Sources → click + → Russian → choose Russian - Phonetic.