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Also known as Es

Cyrillic letter

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"С" is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used to write Russian and several other Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It represents a consonant sound similar to the "s" in English words like "sun" and is one of the foundational characters for reading and writing in these languages.

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Es, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book, with an illustration of sweetness (Slasti) Es (С с; italics: С с or С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".

Coptic icon of St. Mark, clearly showing examples of lunate sigma from which the Cyrillic Es was derived

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “С” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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