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Also known as S with caron, sh

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

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Grapheme.name
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.

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