U+0161 "š" Latin Small Letter S with Caron Unicode Character

U+0161 "š" Latin Small Letter S with Caron is a modified letter 's' used in multiple languages. It appears in the alphabets of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and several Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian, where it represents an English 'sh' sound (the voiceless postalveolar fricative). The caron diacritic above the letter signals this distinct pronunciation, making it an essential component for correct spelling and phonetic clarity in these writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0161
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter S Hacek
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+030C Combining Caron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	š
HTML Hex Encoding	š
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC5 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0161
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000161
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0161

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	"Š" U+0160 Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Š" U+0160 Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Uppercase Code Point	"Š" U+0160 Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Titlecase Code Point	"Š" U+0160 Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
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