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{{Short description|Latin letter S with circumflex}}
{{Distinguish|text= the letter [[Š]] with [[caron]]}}
[[File:Latin letter S with circumflex.svg|thumb|Latin S with circumflex]]
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'''Ŝ''' or '''ŝ''' (S [[circumflex]]) is a [[consonant]] in [[Esperanto orthography]], representing the sound {{IPAblink|ʃ}}.<ref name="compart">{{cite web|url= https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+015C|title=Unicode Character “Ŝ” (U+015C)|work=Compart |publisher=Compart AG | place= Oak Brook, IL|date=2021 |accessdate=2024-02-29}}</ref>

Esperanto orthography uses a [[diacritic]] for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do most Latin-based [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] alphabets ([[Polish alphabet|Polish]] is the most notable exception). Letters and [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]]s that are similar to ''ŝ'' (also based on ''[[s]]'') and represent the same sound include [[Czech alphabet|Czech]], [[Latvian alphabet|Latvian]], [[Lithuanian alphabet|Lithuanian]], [[Slovak alphabet|Slovak]], [[Slovene alphabet|Slovene]], [[Serbian Latin]],  and [[Croatian alphabet|Croatian]] ''[[š]]'', [[Albanian alphabet|Albanian]] and [[English_alphabet|English]] ''sh'', [[German alphabet|German]] ''sch'', [[Polish alphabet|Polish]] ''sz'', [[Azerbaijani alphabet|Azerbaijani]], [[Turkish alphabet|Turkish]] and [[Turkmen alphabet|Turkmen]] ''[[ş]]'', [[Romanian alphabet|Romanian]] ''[[ș]]'', [[Hungarian alphabet|Hungarian]] ''s'',  [[French alphabet|French]] ''ch'', and [[Portuguese alphabet|Portuguese]] ''x'' and ''ch''. The [[Cyrillic]] letter [[ш]] represents the same sound and represents a circumflex type with the up in down fricative consonant.

'''Ŝ''' is used in [[ISO 9:1995]] (standard of transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters) for letter [[Щ]], and is used in the orthography of the [[Tsilhqotʼin language]].

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==See also==
* [[Ĉ]]
* [[Ĝ]]
* [[Ĥ]]
* [[Ĵ]]
* [[Ŭ]]

==References==
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