The Hebrew letter shin (ש) represents an "sh" sound. It is the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the name of the twenty-first letter of the various Semitic alphabets, including:
- Phoenician Shin = ?
- Hebrew Shin = ש
- Aramaic Shin = ?
- Ugaritic Shen = ?
- Syriac Shin = ܫ
- Arabic Shin= ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound is [ʃ] or [s].
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 (Glagolitic sha.svg, Ш).The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt (ሠ)is also cognate.