U+015B "ś" Latin Small Letter S with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+015B "ś" Latin Small Letter S with Acute is a graphical symbol used in the written forms of several languages, most notably Polish, where it represents a palatalized "sh" sound, as well as in Sanskrit transliteration and other linguistic contexts to denote a voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative. This character is composed of a standard lowercase "s" combined with an acute accent diacritic placed above it, and its uppercase counterpart is the letter "Ś" at code point U+015A. In digital text, it is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is encoded specifically to support accurate orthography and phonetic transcription across diverse writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+015B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter S with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter S Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ś |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ś |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x015B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000015B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u015b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ś" U+015A Latin Capital Letter S with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ś" U+015A Latin Capital Letter S with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ś" U+015A Latin Capital Letter S with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ś" U+015A Latin Capital Letter S with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |