Ṣ

Ṣ (minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from an S with the addition of a dot below the letter.

Usage The uses of Ṣ include:

the romanization of Semitic languages to represent an "emphatic s" , such as the Arabic (ṣād) or sometimes the Hebrew (tzadi) as pronounced by Mizrahi Jews; the romanization of Indic languages to represent retroflex ; the orthography of Yoruba in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant (the English "sh" sound); the Alvarez-Hale orthography of the Tohono Oʼodham language for retroflex (Akimel O'odham and Saxton use instead).

Encoding In HTML, these are Ṣ: Ṣ and ṣ: ṣ. The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range.

See also Ṡ Tsade Dot (diacritic)

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