U+0218 "Ș" Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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.
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Latin Small Letter U with Inverted Breve
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Latin Small Letter S with Comma Below
General Properties
Code Point
U+0218
Name
Latin Capital Letter S with Comma Below
Decomposition Mapping
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin