Latin Small Letter S With Caron
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0154 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter s with caron.
- Alt code
- Alt+0154
- HTML entity
- š
- Unicode
- U+0161
About this symbol
Š, s with a háček, sounds like sh in ship. Czech uses the háček instead of letter pairs such as sh, an idea linked to the spelling reforms of Jan Hus in the early fifteenth century, and many Slavic and Baltic languages followed.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Slovak, and many other languages
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