U+015F "ş" Latin Small Letter S with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+015F "ş" Latin Small Letter S with Cedilla is a grapheme used in several languages, most notably Turkish, Azerbaijani, Romanian, and Kurdish, where it represents a voiceless postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "sh" in "shut." In Turkish orthography, it is a distinct letter in the alphabet, appearing in words like "şeker" for sugar. The cedilla, a small hook-shaped diacritic attached below the letter s, distinguishes it from the plain Latin "s" and indicates this specific pronunciation. This character is encoded in Unicode's Latin Extended-A block, ensuring proper digital representation across platforms and fonts for texts in languages that rely on it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+015F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter S with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter S Cedilla |
| 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+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ş |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ş |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x015F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000015F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u015f |
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 | "Ş" U+015E Latin Capital Letter S with Cedilla |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ş" U+015E Latin Capital Letter S with Cedilla |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ş" U+015E Latin Capital Letter S with Cedilla |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ş" U+015E Latin Capital Letter S with Cedilla |
| 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 |