U+0218 "Ș" Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ș
U+0218 "Ș" Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below is a distinct grapheme used primarily in the Romanian language, where it represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound commonly transcribed as "sh" in English. It appears in words such as "Romania" itself, spelled "România," and other vocabulary where a cedilla or comma below the letter S indicates a different phonetic value from the standard S. In digital text, this character must be carefully distinguished from the visually similar Latin Capital Letter S with Cedilla (Ş), as the two have separate Unicode code points and are treated differently in linguistic and typographic contexts, particularly for accurate Romanian orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0218 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0326 Combining Comma Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ș |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ș |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0218 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000218 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0218 |
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 | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| Case Folding | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ș" U+0219 Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| 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 |