U+0160 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON: Š – Unicode

U+0160 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0100 to U+017F Latin Extended-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is Latin Small Letter S with Caron.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Capital Letter S, Combining Caron. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0160 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ or similar voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with ʃ or ʂ, but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents the same sound as the Turkic letter Ş and the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter ש, the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) letter ሠ and the Arabic letter ش.
For use in computer systems, Š and š are at Unicode codepoints U+0160 and U+0161 (Alt 0138 and Alt 0154 for input), respectively. In HTML code, the entities &Scaron; and &scaron; can also be used to represent the characters.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	352
UTF-8	C5 A0
UTF-16	01 60
UTF-32	00 00 01 60
URL-Quoted	%C5%A0
HTML hex reference	Š
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	Å
HTML named entity	&Scaron;
Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes)	AA
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes)	D0
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes)	A6
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes)	A6
Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes)	A9
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes)	A9
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes)	8A
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes)	8A
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes)	8A
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes)	D0
L^AT_EX	\v{S}
AGL: Latin-1	Scaron
AGL: Latin-2	Scaron
AGL: Latin-3	Scaron
AGL: Latin-4	Scaron
AGL: Latin-5	Scaron
Adobe Glyph List	Scaron
digraph	S<

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Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S HACEK
Block (blk)	Latin Extended-A
General Category (gc)	Uppercase Letter
Script (sc)	Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Latin Capital Letter S Combining Caron
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
Uppercase (Upper)	✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Case Folding (cf)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✔
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✔
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Upper
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Latin Capital Letter S with Caron
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Latin Small Letter S with Caron
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R

U+0160 Latin Capital Letter S with Caron

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