U+0161 "š" Latin Small Letter S with Caron Unicode Character
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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.
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Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0161
Name
Latin Small Letter S with Caron
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter S Hacek
Decomposition Mapping
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin