“š” U+0161: Latin Small Letter S With Caron

š Latin Small Letter S With Caron

U+0161
š

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The Latin Small Letter S With Caron (š) is a lowercase character used primarily in Central and Eastern European languages (e.g., Czech, Slovak, Croatian) and Baltic languages (e.g., Lithuanian, Latvian). It represents a voiceless postalveolar fricative, similar to the “sh” in “ship”. Technically, it is a composite character consisting of the base letter ‘s’ (U+0073) and the caron accent (U+030C).

⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with ś (U+015B) which uses an acute accent.

Codes

HTML š
CSS \0161
Python \u0161

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