ʃ

See also: ഽ [U+0D3D MALAYALAM SIGN AVAGRAHA], ʆ [U+0286 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH CURL], ∫ [U+222B INTEGRAL], ſ [U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S], and Ʃ [U+01A9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH]

ʃ U+0283, ʃ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH ← ʂ [U+0282] IPA Extensions ʄ → [U+0284]

ᶴ U+1DB4, ᶴ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL ESH ← ᶳ [U+1DB3] Phonetic Extensions Supplement ᶵ → [U+1DB5]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• The form varies between curvy: an 's' stretched vertically – and straight: a vertical line with a right hook at top and a left hook at bottom. The glyph in the box at right has an intermediate form.

Etymology

Introduced by Isaac Pitman in his 1847 Phonotypic Alphabet, based on the italic form of the long s (ſ).

Pronunciation

• IPA:

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Symbol

ʃ

1. (IPA) a voiceless palatoalveolar sibilant.

   Coordinate term: (voiced palatoalveolar fricative) ʒ

2. (superscript ⟨ᶴ⟩, IPA) [ʃ]-fricated release of a plosive (e.g. [tᶴ], sometimes implying an affricate [t͜ʃ]); [ʃ]-coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ʃ].
3. (some Italian dictionaries) voiced alveolar fricative (/z/)

   Synonym: ṡ

See also

• With palatal curl: ʆ
• With retroflex tail: ᶘ

Further reading

• Voiceless postalveolar fricative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Letter esh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Xhosa

Etymology

From IPA ʃ.

Letter

ʃ (upper case Ʃ)

1. Obsolete letter formerly used to represent the phoneme /ʃ/. Replaced by sh.