(lowercase: or ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, formed by S with the addition of a dot above.

Ṡ ṡ ẛ
Ṡ ṡ ẛ

In Irish orthography, the dot was used only for ẛ and ṡ, while a following h was used for ch ph th; lenition of other letters was not indicated. Later the two systems spread to the entire set of lenitable consonants and competed with each other. Eventually the standard practice was to use the dot when writing in Gaelic script and the following h when writing in antiqua. Thus ċ and ch represent the same phonetic element in Modern Irish.

Usage in various languages

Emilian-Romagnol

Ṡ is used in Emilian-Romagnol to represent [z], e.g. faṡû [faˈzuː] "beans".

Tunisian Arabic (romanized)

It is used in Tunisian Arabic transliteration for /sˤ/ (based on Maltese with additional letters).

Character information
Preview
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DOT ABOVELATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT ABOVELATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode7776U+1E607777U+1E617835U+1E9B
UTF-8225 185 160E1 B9 A0225 185 161E1 B9 A1225 186 155E1 BA 9B
Numeric character referenceṠṠṡṡẛẛ

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