Ṣ

Latin S with dot below

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

• In the Alvarez-Hale orthography of the Tohono Oʼodham language to represent retroflex [ʂ] (Akimel O'odham and Saxton use <sh> instead)

In HTML these are Ṣ: &#7778; and ṣ: &#7779;. The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range.

See also

• Tsade
• Dot (diacritic)