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Esh | |
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Ʃ ʃ | |
(See below) | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Sound values | [ʃ] /ˈɛʃ/ |
In Unicode | U+01A9, U+0283 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 1847 to present |
Descendants | None |
Sisters |
Disputed: |
Variations | (See below) |
Other | |
Associated graphs | s(x), sh, š |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Esh (majuscule: Ʃ, minuscule: ʃ) is a character used in phonology to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative (English ⟨sh⟩, as in "ship").
In Unicode, these letters are encoded as U+01A9 Ʃ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH and U+0283 ʃ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH