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Phonemic representation | ʃ (s) | |||||||||
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Position in alphabet | 21 | |||||||||
Numerical value | 300 | |||||||||
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Sin and Shin dot | |
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שׁ שׂ |
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IPA | s, ʃ |
Transliteration | s, sh |
English example | sought, shot |
Sin Dot | |
יִשְׂרָאֵל | |
The word Israel in Hebrew, Yisrael. The upper left hand dot on the Sin is a Sin dot. | |
Shin Dot | |
יֵשׁ | |
The Hebrew word yesh, there is. The upper right hand dot on the Shin is a Shin dot. | |
Other niqqud | |
Shva · Hiriq · Zeire · Segol · Patach · Kamatz · Holam · Dagesh · Mappiq · Shuruk · Kubutz · Rafe · Sin/Shin Dot |
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means "teeth", "press", and "sharp"; It is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin , Hebrew Shin ש, Aramaic Shin , Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s].