S

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
Codepoint	U+0053
R ← Basic Latin → T

See also s, 's, -s, Տ, Ꮪ, Ⴢ, and Appendix:Variations of "s"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter S):  Śś  Ṥṥ  Ŝŝ  Šš  Ṧṧ  Ṡṡẛ  Şş  Ṣṣ  Ṩṩ  Șș  S̩s̩  ᵴ  ᶊ  ʂ  ȿ  ꜱ  Ｓｓ  ſ  ẞß  stſt

Symbol

S

1. (chemistry) symbol for sulfur / sulphur
2. (metrology) symbol for siemens, a measure of electrical conductance.
3. (metrology) symbol for spat.
4. (metrology) symbol for svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate in ultracentrifugation).
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for serine
6. (geology) symbol for storativity

See also

Other representations of S:

NATO phonetic: Sierra Morse code: ··· Braille: ⠎ ASL Manual: S

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of S, in normal and italic type

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (letter) IPA: /ɛs/, SAMPA: /Es/
• (phoneme) IPA: /s/, /z/, /ʒ/

Letter

S uppercase (lowercase s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

Number

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Noun

S (plural Ss)

1. American Library Association Abbreviation for sextodecimo, a book size, 15-17.5 cm in height.

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe S)

1. The letter S

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Azeri

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛs/

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Esperanto

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz ^[edit]

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of sudo (“south”).
2. (text messaging) Abbreviation of ŝi (“she”).

Alternative forms

• (she): Ŝ

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French

Pronunciation

• (letter) IPA: /ɛs/, X-SAMPA: /Es/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of sud; south.

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) ^[create]

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Galician

Abbreviation

S

1. sur (south)

Antonyms

• (south): N

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʔɛs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: es

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) ^[create]

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /ˈɛsse/, SAMPA: /"Esse/
• (phoneme) IPA: /s/, /z/
• (phoneme, when followed by a voiceless consonant) IPA: /s/
• (phoneme, when followed by a voiced consonant) IPA: /z/

Letter

S m. and f. inv. (lower case s)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called esse and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, (Jj), (Kk), Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, (Ww), (Xx), (Yy), Zz ^[edit]
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /se/, /es/
• (phoneme): IPA: /s/

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Ăă, Ââ, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Îî, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Ţţ, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Zz, Žž ^[edit]

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /s/
• (letter name): IPA: /sæ/

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The ninth letter of the Somali alphabet, called sa and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

1. The ninth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by R and followed by SH.

See also

• (Latin script letters) '', Bb, Tt, Jj, Xx, KHkh, Dd, Rr, Ss, SHsh, DHdh, Cc, Gg, Ff, Qq, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ww, Hh, Yy, Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu ^[edit]

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Spanish

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twentieth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) ^[create]

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Turkish

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Turkish alphabet, called se and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]