Š
Latin letter S with caron / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ or similar voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with ʃ or ʂ, but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents the same sound as the Turkic letter Ş and the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter ש, the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) letter ሠ, the Arabic letter ش, and the Armenian letter Շ(շ).
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Š š | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Czech language |
Phonetic usage | [ʃ] [ʂ] |
Unicode codepoint | U+0160, U+0161 |
History | |
Development | |
Transliteration equivalents | Ш Ⱎ ש ش շ |
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Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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. |
For use in computer systems, Š and š are at Unicode codepoints U+0160 and U+0161 (Alt 0138 and Alt 0154 for input), respectively. In HTML code, the entities Š
and š
can also be used to represent the characters.