Samekh

Samekh
Phoenician
𐤎
Hebrew
ס
Aramaic
𐡎
Syriac
ܣ
Arabic
س
Phonemic representations
Position in alphabet15
Numerical value60
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΞ
LatinX
CyrillicѮ

Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס‎, Aramaic samek 𐡎, Syriac semkaṯ ܣ, and Arabic sīn س (in the Mashriqi order) .

Samekh represents a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. In the Hebrew language, the samekh has the same pronunciation as the left-dotted shin.

The numerical value of samekh is 60.