S̩ (minuscule: s̩) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a vertical line below it. It is used in Yoruba to represent a voiceless postalveolar fricative (IPA: /ʃ/; like English "sh").
The line is sometimes replaced by a dot, i.e. Ṣ ṣ.
[s̩] is also the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a syllabic "s" sound.
Computer encoding
Unicode does not include precomposed characters for S̩ s̩—they must be represented with a combining diacritic, which may not align properly in some fonts. Nevertheless, the sequence of base character + combining diacritic is given a unique name.
| Appearance | Code points | Names |
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| S̩ | U+0053, U+0329 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S + COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH VERTICAL LINE BELOW |
| s̩ | U+0073, U+0329 | LATIN SMALL LETTER S + COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH VERTICAL LINE BELOW |
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Letter S with diacritics
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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