Shin | |
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Phoenician | 𐤔 |
Hebrew | ש |
Aramaic | 𐡔 |
Syriac | ܫ |
Arabic | س |
Phonemic representation | š (s)[1] |
Position in alphabet | 21 |
Numerical value | 300 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Σ |
Latin | S, ẞ |
Cyrillic | С, Ш, Щ |
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س[a] and šīn ش[b].[c]
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and the German letter ẞ and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, Ш).
The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.
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