ŝ

ŝ

1. (phonetics, French) The affricate sound [t͡s].
2. (phonetics) The 'closed' voiceless fricative in Circassian for which ⟨ᵷ⟩ was once proposed for the IPA.

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ʃ/; before a voiced obstruent, IPA^(key): /ʒ/

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ŝ (lower case, upper case Ŝ)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ŝo and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

See ẑ.

ŝ

1. rare spelling of sh

   Coordinate terms: ẑ, ĉ, ŝ

• 《汉语拼音方案》 (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn, “Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet”) specifies that ⟨ẑ⟩, ⟨ĉ⟩, ⟨ŝ⟩ and ⟨ŋ⟩ may be used as abbreviations for ⟨zh⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨sh⟩ and ⟨ng⟩ respectively, though these are rarely used in practice.