Shin (letter)
Twenty-first letter in many Semitic alphabets / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س .[lower-alpha 1] Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s].
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Shin | |
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Phoenician | |
Hebrew | ש |
Aramaic | |
Syriac | ܫ |
Arabic | س |
Phonemic representation | ʃ (s) |
Position in alphabet | 21 |
Numerical value | 300 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Σ |
Latin | S |
Cyrillic | С |
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The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, Ш).
The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.