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U+AB4D, ꭍ
LATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH

Latin Extended-E

Translingual

Symbol

  1. (Teuthonista) Used in digraphs to indicate sibilants between lenis (voiced) [s] and fortis [ſ], the latter of which takes a descending tail like ʃ in italic typeface.

Usage notes

Baseline esh and standard long S in italic typeface.

This symbol contrasts with normal ſ in not having a descender in italic typeface. Not all sources use it; some restrict themselves to diacritics on ⟨s⟩ and ⟨ſ ⟩ (IPA and ) for the distinction, or use the alternative series ⟨z s σ ß⟩ (IPA ).

A similar distinction is made between tailless and normal f.