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See also:שׂ,ש־,ш,Ш,and山

ש	U+05E9,ש HEBREW LETTER SHIN

←ר
[U+05E8]

Hebrew

ת →
[U+05EA]

Hebrew

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Pronunciation

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Homophone:ס

Etymology 1

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FromProto-Semitic*šinn-(“tooth”), the source ofשן. The association of "tooth" with this letter was the result of folk etymology and based on the corresponding Phoenician letter,𐤔(š), having a shape resembling a tooth. The letter originally depicted acomposite bow, which usually has the tips curving away from the archer when unstrung.^[1]^[2]

Related toClassical Syriacܫ,Arabicش(š),Phoenician𐤔(š),Russianш(š),Aramaicܫ. More atShin.

Letter

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ש• (sh, s)

Shin orsin: the twenty-first letter of theHebrew alphabet, afterר and beforeת.
שׁ is shin (with theshin dot above the right-hand side of the letter), representing/ʃ/
שׂ is sin (with thesin dot above the left-hand side of the letter), representing /s/
Thenumeral 300 in Hebrew numbering.

Coordinate terms

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Hebrew script letters (alphabet appendix,script appendix):א,ב,ג,ד,ה,ו,ז,ח,ט,י,כ~ך,ל,מ~ם,נ~ן,ס,ע,פ~ף,צ~ץ,ק,ר,ש,ת^[edit]

References

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^“shin”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2016,→ISBN.
^Albright, W. F. (1948). "The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Sinai and their Decipherment". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 110 (110): 6–22 [p. 15].