Ş

Not to be confused with Ș (S-comma).

S-cedilla (majuscule: Ş, minuscule: ş) is a letter used in some of the Turkic languages. It occurs in the Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish, and Turkmen alphabets. It is also planned to be in the Latin-based Kazakh alphabet. It is used in Brahui,^[1] Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, and Tatar as well, when they are written in the Latin alphabet.

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

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

Romanian passport since January 2019, showing the substitution of Ş for Ș.

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

Şş
S-cedilla

Main article: S-comma

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

References

1. Bráhuí Báşágal, Quetta: Brahui Language Board, University of Balochistan, April 2009, retrieved 2010-06-29