U+0160 "Š" Latin Capital Letter S with Caron Unicode Character
U+0160 "Š" Latin Capital Letter S with Caron is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter S, distinguished by a diacritical mark called a caron or haček placed above it. This character is commonly used in several languages, including Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and Lithuanian, where it represents a postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "sh" in "ship." It appears in romanizations of various non-Latin scripts, such as those for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, to transliterate the same or similar sounds. In Unicode, "Š" is encoded as a precomposed character for compatibility and consistency across digital text, allowing it to be treated as a single unit rather than a combination of S and a combining diacritic. Its lowercase counterpart is U+0161 "š."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0160 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter S Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Š |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Š |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0160 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000160 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0160 |
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 | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| Case Folding | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "š" U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron |
| 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 |