ŝ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "s"

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

Translingual

Symbol

ŝ

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

Chilcotin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤ/

Letter

ŝ (lower case, upper case Ŝ)

1. A letter of the Chilcotin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): /ʃ/, (before a voiced obstruent) /ʒ/

(letter)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃo/

• Audio 1:

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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

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

Further reading

• “ŝ”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

Mandarin

Etymology

See ẑ.

Romanization

ŝ

1. rare spelling of sh

   Coordinate terms: ẑ, ĉ, ŝ

Usage notes

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