Š
| Eš | |
|---|---|
| Š š | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Czech language |
| Sound values | [ʃ] [ʂ] |
| In Unicode | U+0160, U+0161 |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Transliterations | Ш Ⱎ ש ش շ |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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 /ʃ/ or similar voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/. 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.