“ש” U+05E9: Hebrew Letter Shin

ש Hebrew Letter Shin

U+05E9
ש

ℹ️ About

The Hebrew Letter Shin (ש) is the twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In Unicode, it is classified as an “Other Letter” (Lo) within the Hebrew block. It is a Right-To-Left (RTL) character. It is linguistically versatile, representing both the “sh” sound (Shin) and the “s” sound (Sin) depending on the placement of a diacritic dot.

⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with שׁ (U+FB2A) or שׂ (U+FB2B) which include integrated dots.

Codes

HTML ש
CSS \05E9
Python \u05E9

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