Ṣ

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

S with dot below
Ṣ ṣ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Sound values	[sˤ] [ʂ] [ʃ]
History
Transliterations	ص

Usage

The uses of Ṣ include:

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