LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH
Overview
Esh is the phonetic symbol for the voiceless postalveolar fricative, the sound written sh in English, and U+01A9 is its capital form. The glyph closely resembles Greek capital sigma, but the two are separate characters with different properties and must not be substituted for one another — a confusability that matters for identifier spoofing checks. The capital exists because several African orthographies adopted symbols from the phonetic alphabet as ordinary letters, and a working alphabet requires both cases. Unicode places it in Latin Extended-B with the general category Lu (letter, uppercase); its lowercase counterpart is U+0283.
On this page
Encoding Table
| Format | Value | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| unicode | U+01A9 | |
| decimal | 425 | |
| htmldecimal | Ʃ | |
| htmlhex | Ʃ | |
| css | \01A9 | |
| javascript | \u{1A9} | |
| python | \u01a9 | |
| java | \u01A9 | |
| go | \u01A9 | |
| ruby | \u{1A9} | |
| rust | \u{1A9} | |
| ccpp | \u01a9 | |
| urlencoded | %C6%A9 | |
| utf8bytes | c6 a9 | |
| utf16bebytes | 01 a9 | |
| utf32bebytes | 00 00 01 a9 |
How to Use
Ʃ
content: "\01A9"
"\u{1A9}"
"\u01a9"
Properties
- Block
- Latin Extended-B
- Script
- Latn
- Category
- Uppercase Letter (Lu)
- Bidirectional
- L
- Combining
- 0
- Mirrored
- No
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Ʃ character (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH)?
Ʃ (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH) is the Unicode character U+01A9.
What is the Unicode codepoint of LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH?
The LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH character (Ʃ) has codepoint U+01A9.
How do I type or copy LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH?
Copy Ʃ directly, or use the HTML entity, UTF-8, and code encodings shown on this page.