Š

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 and the Arabic letter ش.

Not to be confused with the Sámi youth magazine Š or the Esperanto letter Ŝ.
Eš
Š š
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originCzech language
Phonetic usage[ʃ]
[ʂ]
Unicode codepointU+0160, U+0161
History
Development
Transliteration equivalentsШ
Ⱎ
ש
ش
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right

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.

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