Ś (minuscule: ś or ſ́) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other languages or romanizations.[1]
| S with acute accent | |
|---|---|
| Ś ś | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Phonetic usage | |
| Unicode codepoint | U+015A, U+015B, U+017F + U+0301 |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Transliteration equivalents | |
| Other | |
| This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. | |
Uses edit
- Slavic languages – usually the palatalized form of /s/
- Polish language – [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
- Montenegrin language – [ɕ]; Cyrillic letter: С́
- In the Belarusian Łacinka for сь /sʲ/
- In the Ukrainian Latynka for сь /sʲ/
- Lower Sorbian language – [ɕ]
- Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages: see the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
- Romani alphabet
- Ladin language – word-initial [z] (in Anpezo dialect it represents [z] in all positions)
- In some dialects of the Emilian language – /z/
- transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
- In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme /ɬ/, the parent phoneme of Ge'ez Śawt ሠ.
- a sibilant phoneme of the earliest phase of the Sumerian language.
- transliteration of a letter of the Etruscan alphabet, related to San and Tsade.
- a sibilant phoneme of the ancient Iberian language.
Encodings edit
| Preview | Ś | ś | ſ | ́ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S | COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 346 | U+015A | 347 | U+015B | 383 | U+017F | 769 | U+0301 |
| UTF-8 | 197 154 | C5 9A | 197 155 | C5 9B | 197 191 | C5 BF | 204 129 | CC 81 |
| Numeric character reference | Ś | Ś | ś | ś | ſ | ſ | ́ | ́ |
| Named character reference | Ś | ś | ||||||
The HTML codes are:
- Ś for Ś (upper case)
- ś for ś (lower case)
The Unicode codepoints are U+015A for Ś and U+015B for ś.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Unicode Character "Ś" (U+015A)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-29.