U+0219 "ș" Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0219 "ș" Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below is a distinct grapheme used primarily in the Romanian and Moldovan alphabets, where it represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the "sh" in "ship". This character should not be confused with the visually similar "ş" (Latin Small Letter S with Cedilla), though font rendering issues often cause the comma below to appear as a cedilla in digital environments. Proper encoding of U+0219 is essential for accurate Romanian text, as it distinguishes words like "a ști" (to know) from incorrect alternatives, and it supports the language's diacritic-based orthography established in the early 19th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0219 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0326 Combining Comma Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ș |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ș |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0219 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000219 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0219 |
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 | "Ș" U+0218 Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ș" U+0218 Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ș" U+0218 Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ș" U+0218 Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below |
| 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 |