U+0218 "Ș" Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ș
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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.

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