Ṣ



Ṣ (minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from an S with the addition of a dot below the letter. Its uses include:


 * In the Alvarez/Hale orthography of the Tohono Oʼodham language to represent retroflex (Akimel O'odham and Saxton/Saxton use  instead)
 * the transliteration of Indic languages to represent retroflex
 * the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic s" as in Arabic ص (Ṣād) and as in the Hebrew צ (Tzadi/Ṣādī) spoken by the Jews of Yemen and North Africa
 * the orthography of Yoruba in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant (the English "sh" sound)

In HTML these are Ṣ: &amp;#7778; and ṣ: &amp;#7779;.

The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range.