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Ʃ

Ʃ

Ʃ U+01A9, Ʃ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH
← ƨ
[U+01A8] 		Latin Extended-B ƪ →
[U+01AA]
See also: ᛊ [U+16CA RUNIC LETTER SOWILO S], ⵉ [U+2D49 TIFINAGH LETTER YI], ∑ [U+2211 N-ARY SUMMATION], ʃ [U+0283 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH], and Σ [U+03A3 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA]

Translingual

Letter

Ʃ upper case (lower case ʃ)

  1. The upper-case letter esh, used in the Pitman alphabet and in writing certain African languages

ʃ

ʃ

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

Translingual

Symbol

ʃ

  1. (IPA) voiceless postalveolar fricative.

See also

  • Uppercase: Ʃ
  • With curl: ʆ

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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