Esh (letter)
Character and IPA symbol (Ʃ, ʃ) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the letter ʃ ("esh"). For the IPA symbol, see voiceless postalveolar fricative. For the letter esh 𐑇 in the Deseret alphabet, see Deseret alphabet.
Not to be confused with ezh, the letter's voiced counterpart; the letter ſ (the "long s"); the integral symbol (∫); or the Greek letter sigma (Σ).
Esh (majuscule: Ʃ Unicode U+01A9, minuscule: ʃ Unicode U+0283) is a character used in phonology to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative (English ⟨sh⟩, as in "ship").
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Esh | |
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Ʃ ʃ | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | [ʃ] /ˈɛʃ/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+01A9, U+0283 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 1847 to present |
Descendants | None |
Sisters |
Disputed: |
Variations | (See below) |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | s(x), sh, š |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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