U+0161 Latin Small Letter S with Caron
U+0161 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin Extended-A in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter S with Caron and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter S with Caron.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Small 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+0161 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
Šandšcan also be used to represent the characters.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 353 |
| UTF-8 | C5 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 01 61 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 01 61 |
| URL-Quoted | %C5%A1 |
| HTML hex reference | š |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Å¡ |
| HTML named entity | š |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes) | BA |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | F0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | A8 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | A8 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | B9 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | B9 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | F0 |
| LATEX | \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< |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER S HACEK | |
| Latin Extended-A | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Small Letter S Combining Caron | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Caron | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Caron | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Caron | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Caron | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Caron | |
| R |