ŝ

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ŝ U+015D, ŝ
LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Composition:s [U+0073] + ◌̂ [U+0302]
Ŝ
Latin Extended-A Ş

Translingual

Symbol

ŝ

  1. (phonetics, French) The affricate sound [t͡s].
  2. (phonetics) The 'closed' voiceless fricative in Circassian for which was once proposed for the IPA.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʃo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʃ/

Letter

ŝ (lower case, upper case Ŝ)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ŝo and written in the Latin script.

See also

Mandarin

Etymology

See .

Romanization

ŝ

  1. Rare spelling of sh.
    Coordinate terms: , ĉ, ŝ

Usage notes

  • 漢語拼音方案汉语拼音方案 (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn, “Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet”) specifies that , ĉ, ŝ and ŋ may be used as abbreviations for zh, ch, sh and ng respectively, though these are rarely used in practice.