Ş

Not to be confused with Ș (S-comma).

Appearance of S-cedilla in upper- and lower-case. The left is in the upper-case.

S-cedilla (majuscule: Ş, minuscule: ş) is a letter used in some of the Turkic languages. It occurs the Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish, and Turkmen alphabets. It is also planned to be in Kazakh and Uzbek alphabets. It is used in Brahui, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, and Tatar as well, when they are written in the Latin alphabet.

It commonly represents /ʃ/, the voiceless postalveolar fricative (like sh in shoe).

It is written as the letter S with a cedilla below and it has both the lower-case (U+015F) and the upper-case variants (U+15E).

Romanian

Şş
S-cedilla
Diacritics in Latin & Greek accent acute´ double acute˝ grave` double grave ̏ circumflexˆ caron, háčekˇ breve˘ inverted breve  ̑   cedilla¸ diaeresis, umlaut¨ dot· palatal hook  ̡ retroflex hook  ̢ hook above ̉ horn ̛ iota subscript ͅ  macronˉ ogonek, nosinė˛ perispomene ͂  overring˚ underring˳ rough breathing῾ smooth breathing᾿ Marks sometimes used as diacritics apostrophe’ bar◌̸ colon: comma, full stop/period. hyphen˗ prime′ tilde~ Diacritical marks in other scripts Arabic diacritics Early Cyrillic diacritics kamora ҄ pokrytie ҇ titlo ҃ Hebrew diacritics Indic diacritics anusvaraं ং ଂ ം avagrahaऽ ঽ ଽ ఽ ഽ ྅ chandrabinduँ ఁ ྃ nuqta़ virama् ് ్ ್ ් ် visargaः ঃ ଃ ஃ Gurmukhī diacritics Khmer diacritics Thai diacritics IPA diacritics Japanese kana diacritics dakuten ﾞ handakuten ﾟ Syriac diacritics Related Dotted circle◌ Punctuation marks Logic symbols

Main article: S-comma

Appearance of comma (upper row) and cedilla (lower row) in the Times New Roman font.

In early versions of Unicode, the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma) was considered a glyph variant of Ş, and therefore was not present in the Unicode Standard. It is also not present in the Windows 1250 (Central Europe) code page. The letter was only added to the standard in Unicode 3.0, and some texts in Romanian still use Ş instead.

Character encoding

Character information

Preview	Ş		ş
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA		LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	350	U+015E	351	U+015F
UTF-8	197 158	C5 9E	197 159	C5 9F
Numeric character reference	Ş	Ş	ş	ş
Named character reference	Ş		ş
ISO 8859-2	170	AA	186	BA
ISO 8859-3	170	AA	186	BA
ISO 8859-9	222	DE	254	FE

HTML entity (HTML 5 only, not supported on all browsers):

Ş	ş
Ş	ş

Related characters & digraphs

• T-cedilla ( Ţ )
• S-comma ( Ș )
• S-caron (Š), which is also used to represent [ʃ]
• C-cedilla (Ç)
• Cyrillic Sha (Ш)
• Sh, a digraph used in English and other languages