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The digraph/letterSh is adigraph of theLatin alphabet, which is written as a combination ofS andH.
InAlbanian,sh represents[ʃ]. It is considered a distinct letter, namedshë, and placed betweenS andT in theAlbanian alphabet.
InBreton,sh represents[s]. It is not considered a distinct letter and it is a variety ofzh (e. g.koshoc'h ("older"). It is not considered as a digraph in compound words, such askroashent ("roundabout":kroaz ("cross") +hent ("way", "ford").
InEnglish,⟨sh⟩ usually represents/ʃ/. The main exception is incompound words, where the⟨s⟩ and⟨h⟩ are not a digraph, but pronounced separately, e.g.hogshead ishogs-head/ˈhɒɡz.hɛd/, not*hog-shead/ˈhɒɡ.ʃɛd/.Sh is not considered a distinct letter forcollation purposes.
American Literarybraille includes a single-cell contraction for the digraph with the dot pattern (1 4 6). In isolation it stands for the word "shall".
InOld English orthography, the sound/ʃ/ was written⟨sc⟩. InMiddle English it came to be written⟨sch⟩ or⟨sh⟩; the latter spelling has been adopted as the usual one inModern English.
InIrish,⟨sh⟩ represents[h] and marks thelenition of⟨s⟩; for examplemo shaol[mˠəhiːlˠ] "my life" (cf.saol[sˠiːlˠ] "life").
InJudaeo-Spanish,sh represents[ʃ] and occurs in both native words (debasho, ‘under’) and foreign ones (shalom, ‘hello’). In theHebrew script it is writtenש.
InOccitan,sh represents[ʃ]. It mostly occurs in theGascon dialect of Occitan and corresponds withs orss in other Occitan dialects:peish = peis "fish",naishença = naissença "birth",sheis = sièis "six". Ani beforesh is silent:peish, naishença are pronounced[ˈpeʃ,naˈʃensɔ]. Some words havesh in all Occitan dialects: they are Gascon words adopted in all the Occitan language (Aush "Auch",Arcaishon "Arcachon") or foreign borrowings (shampó "shampoo").
Fors·h, seeInterpunct#Occitan.
InSpanish,sh represents[ʃ] almost only in foreign origin words, asflash,show,shuara orgeisha.Royal Spanish Academy recommends adapting in both spelling and pronunciation withs, adapting to common pronunciation inpeninsular dialect. Nevertheless, inAmerican dialects it is frequently pronounced [t͡ʃ].[1]
Sh represents the sound[ʃ] in theSomali Latin Alphabet.[2] It is considered a separate letter, and is the 9th letter of the alphabet.
Sh represents the sound[ʃ] in theUyghur Latin script. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 14th letter of the alphabet.
In Uzbek, the lettersh represents[ʃ]. It is the 27th letter of theUzbek alphabet.
InFinnish andEstonian,sh is used in place ofš to represent [ʃ] when the accented character is unavailable.
In thePinyin,Wade-Giles, andYale romanizations ofChinese,sh represents retroflex[ʂ]. It contrasts with[ɕ], which is writtenx in Pinyin,hs in Wade-Giles, andsy in Yale.
In theHepburn romanization ofJapanese,sh represents[ɕ]. Other romanizations write[ɕ] ass beforei andsy before other vowels.