U+0283 "ʃ" Latin Small Letter Esh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʃ
U+0283 "ʃ" Latin Small Letter Esh is a typographic symbol that represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound, commonly heard in English words like "ship," "sure," and "nation." This character is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe the "sh" sound and also appears in the orthographies of several African and Indigenous languages. Its shape is derived from a long, tailed version of the letter "s," and it is distinct from the similar-looking integral sign in mathematics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0283 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Esh |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0283 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000283 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0283 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ʃ" U+01A9 Latin Capital Letter Esh |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ʃ" U+01A9 Latin Capital Letter Esh |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ʃ" U+01A9 Latin Capital Letter Esh |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ʃ" U+01A9 Latin Capital Letter Esh |
| 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 |