Ṡ

Ṡ (lowercase: ṡ or ẛ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, formed by S with the addition of a dot above.

Ṡ ṡ ẛ
Ṡ ṡ ẛ

In Irish orthography, the dot was used only for ẛ and ṡ, while a following h was used for ch ph th; lenition of other letters was not indicated. Later the two systems spread to the entire set of lenitable consonants and competed with each other. Eventually the standard practice was to use the dot when writing in Gaelic script and the following h when writing in antiqua. Thus ċ and ch represent the same phonetic element in Modern Irish.

Usage in various languages

Emilian-Romagnol

Ṡ is used in Emilian-Romagnol to represent [z], e.g. faṡû [faˈzuː] "beans".

Tunisian Arabic (romanized)

It is used in Tunisian Arabic transliteration for /sˤ/ (based on Maltese with additional letters).

Character information

Preview	Ṡ		ṡ		ẛ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DOT ABOVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT ABOVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	7776	U+1E60	7777	U+1E61	7835	U+1E9B
UTF-8	225 185 160	E1 B9 A0	225 185 161	E1 B9 A1	225 186 155	E1 BA 9B
Numeric character reference	Ṡ	Ṡ	ṡ	ṡ	ẛ	ẛ

References

• Cite dot Phonetic Symbol Guide S dot, Irish.