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 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.

It commonly represents /ʃ/, the voiceless postalveolar fricative (like sh in -şoe- 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

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
PreviewŞş
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode350U+015E351U+015F
UTF-8197 158C5 9E197 159C5 9F
Numeric character referenceŞŞşş
Named character referenceŞş
ISO 8859-2170AA186BA
ISO 8859-3170AA186BA
ISO 8859-9222DE254FE

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

Ş ş
Ş ş

References

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