Შ/შ Ⴘ/ⴘ

Also known as Შ, შ, Ⴘ, ⴘ, Georgian letter shin, shin (Georgian letter), Georgian letter shini, shini (Georgian letter)

Shini, or Shin (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli: შ; Mtavruli: Შ; ) is the 28th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

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Grapheme.name: Shini
Grapheme.letter: Ⴘ ⴘ შ Შ
Grapheme.image: Mkhedruli sh.svg
Grapheme.imagesize: 150px
Grapheme.script: Georgian script
Grapheme.type: Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc: ic
Grapheme.language: Georgian language
Grapheme.phonemes: []
Grapheme.unicode: U+10B8, U+2D18, U+10E8, U+1CA8
Grapheme.alphanumber: 28
Grapheme.number: 900
Grapheme.usageperiod: 430 to present
Grapheme.equivalents: Sh, Š
Grapheme.direction: Left-to-right

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Shini, or Shin (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli: შ; Mtavruli: Შ; ) is the 28th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 900. Shini commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of in "shoe". It is typically romanized with the digraph Sh or with the letter Š.

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