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Shin
Taw →
Shin
ש
Shin
ܫ
ش
Phonemic representation ʃ (s)
Position in alphabet 21
Numerical value 300
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Σ S С Ш

Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin Phoenician sin.svg, Hebrew Shin ש‎, Aramaic Shin Shin.svg, Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش‎ (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant or.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (Glagolitic sha.svg, Ш).

The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.

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