| Shin | |
|---|---|
| Phoenician | 𐤔 |
| Hebrew | ש |
| Aramaic | 𐡔 |
| Syriac | ܫ |
| Arabic | ش |
| Phonemic representation | ʃ, s[1] |
| Position in alphabet | 21 |
| Numerical value | 300 |
| Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
| Greek | Σ |
| Latin | S, ẞ |
| Cyrillic | С, Ш, Щ, Ж |
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic šīn ش[a][b][c], Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Hebrew šīn ש, Phoenician šīn 𐤔 and Syriac šīn ܫ.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and the German letter ẞ and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (&sq=&lang=&file=File:Glagolitic_sha.svg){kind=small}
, Ш).
The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate. The letter šīn is the only letter of the Arabic alphabet with three dots with a letter corresponding to a letter in the Northwest Semitic abjad or the Phoenician alphabet.
- ^ a b c Kogan 2011, p. 54.
- ^ a b Macdonald 1986, pp. 117, 130, 149.
- ^ MacDonald 1986, p. 123.
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