ʃ
(Redirected from 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]
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Character variations
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Translingual
editAlternative forms
edit- 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
editIntroduced by Isaac Pitman in his 1847 Phonotypic Alphabet, based on the italic form of the long s (ſ).
Pronunciation
editIPA: (file)
Symbol
editʃ
- (IPA) a voiceless palatoalveolar sibilant.
- Coordinate term: (voiced palatoalveolar fricative) ʒ
- (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].
- (some Italian dictionaries) voiced alveolar fricative (/z/)
- Synonym: ṡ
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Voiceless postalveolar fricative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Letter esh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Xhosa
editEtymology
editLetter
editʃ (upper case Ʃ)
- Obsolete letter formerly used to represent the phoneme /ʃ/. Replaced by sh.