U+015C "Ŝ" Latin Capital Letter S with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ŝ
U+015C "Ŝ" Latin Capital Letter S with Circumflex is a distinct letter in the Esperanto alphabet, where it represents the /ʃ/ sound, similar to the "sh" in English "ship." It is composed of a standard capital S with a circumflex diacritic above it, which is a common modification in Esperanto to create additional consonant sounds. This character is also used in the romanization of several languages, such as in transcribing the Chechen Cyrillic letter "Ш" and occasionally in transliterations of Arabic or other scripts. In computing, it is encoded as a single Unicode code point to ensure proper representation and processing, particularly in text systems that support the Latin Extended-A block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+015C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter S Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x015C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000015C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u015c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŝ" U+015D Latin Small Letter S with Circumflex |
| 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 | Upper |