Shin (letter)
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س . Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s].
| Shin | |
|---|---|
| Phoenician | |
| Hebrew | ש |
| Aramaic | |
| Syriac | ܫ |
| Arabic | س |
| Phonemic representation | ʃ (s) |
| Position in alphabet | 21 |
| Numerical value | 300 |
| Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
| Greek | Σ |
| Latin | S |
| Cyrillic | С |
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, Ш).
The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.
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