Ṣ

Ṣ (minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a dot below the letter. Its uses include:

• the transliteration of Indic languages to represent retroflex [ʂ],
• the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic s" [sˀ] as in Arabic ص (Ṣād) and as in the Hebrew צ (Tzadi/Ṣādī) spoken by the Jews of Yemen and North Africa.
• the orthography of Yoruba in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant ("sh" sound).

See also

• Tsade
• Dot (diacritic)