class=skin-invert-image|right|thumb|Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif 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 or similar voiceless retroflex fricative . 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, th
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Eš
- Grapheme.letter
- Š š
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.fam1
- Aa32M40
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Sin
- Grapheme.fam5
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caanite Shin
- Grapheme.fam6
- Σ σ ς
- Grapheme.fam7
- ς
- Grapheme.fam8
- 𐌔
- Grapheme.fam9
- S s
- Grapheme.fam10
- Ṡ ṡ
- Grapheme.language
- Czech language, Silesian language, Slovak language, Polish language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [][]
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0160, U+0161
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class=skin-invert-image|right|thumb|Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif 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 or similar voiceless retroflex fricative . 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 Cyrillic letter Ш, the Arabic letter ش and the Armenian letter Շ (շ).
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.