- dollar sign
- Dze
- EBCDIC
- English language
- English_alphabet
- Es (Cyrillic)
- Esh (letter)
- ess-tsett
- Etruscan language
- f
- German language
- grammatical person
- Greek language
- Hungarian language
- integral symbol
- Latin
- Letter (alphabet)
- long s
- lower case
- n
- noun
- plural
- Portuguese language
- present tense
- Script.NET
- Semitic languages
- Sh (digraph)
- shin (letter)
- Sigma
- sigma (letter)
- S♯arp
- t
- Tse (Cyrillic)
- Unicode
- UTF-8
- verb
- Zhuang language
- §
- ß
- Ƨ
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S (; named ess; es- when part of compound word, plural esses) is the nineteenth (19th) letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
History
shin (letter)>shin | ! Etruscan S | ! Greek Sigma |
The minuscule form of s was ſ, called the long s, up to the fifteenth century or so, and the form 'S' was used then only as upper case, just like 'G' and 'A' were only upper case. With the introduction of printing, the modern form s began to be used at the end of words by some printers. Later, it was used everywhere and eventually spread to manuscript letters as well. For example, "sinfulness" would be rendered as "ſinfulneſſ" in all medieval hands, later it was "ſinfulneſs" in some blackletter hands and in print. The modern usage "sinfulness" didn't become widespread in print until the beginning of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion of 'ſ' with the lower case f in typefaces which had a very short horizontal stroke in their lowercase 'f'. The ligature of ſs (or ſz) became the German ess-tsett, ß.
Usage
The letter S represents the voiceless alveolar grooved fricative in most languages and IPA; it also commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative , as in the Portuguese mesa or the English does. It may also represent the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative , as in Portuguese, Hungarian, and German (before p, t). The letter S is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant (after t and n).In English, final ‹s› is the usual mark of plural nouns, and of third person present tense verbs.
Related letters and other similar characters
Computing codes
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right |- align=center | align=right | character || colspan=2 | S || colspan=2 | s |- align=center | align=right | Unicode name || colspan=2 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S || colspan=2 | LATIN SMALL LETTER S |- | align=left | character encoding || decimal || hex || decimal || hex |- | align=left | Unicode || 83 || 0053 || 115 || 0073 |- | align=left | UTF-8 || 83 || 53 || 115 || 73 |- | align=left | Numeric character reference || S || S || s || s |- | align=left | EBCDIC family || 226 || E2 || 162 || A2 |- | align=left | ASCII ASCII 1 || 83 || 53 || 115 || 73 |} 1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
References
External links
Category:ISO basic Latin letters
ace:S af:S als:S ar:S an:S arc:S ast:S az:S zh-min-nan:S be:S, літара be-x-old:S (літара) bs:S ca:S cs:S co:S cy:S da:S de:S et:S el:S (γράμμα) es:S eo:S eu:S fa:S fr:S (lettre) fy:S fur:S gv:Shellagh (lettyr) gd:S gl:S gan:S xal:S үзг ko:S hr:S ilo:S id:S is:S it:S he:S ka:S kw:S sw:S ht:S ku:S (tîp) la:S lv:S lt:S hu:S mk:S (Латиница) mzn:S ms:S nah:S nl:S (letter) ja:S no:S nn:S nrm:S mhr:S (латин тиште) uz:S (harf) pl:S pt:S ro:S qu:S ru:S (латиница) se:S stq:S scn:S simple:S sk:S sl:S sr:S (слово латинице) sh:S su:S fi:S sv:S tl:S th:S tr:S (harf) uk:S (латиниця) vi:S vo:S war:S yi:S yo:S zh-yue:S diq:S bat-smg:S zh:SThis text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.