Shin (letter)

← Resh Shin Taw →
Phoenician
Hebrew	ש
Aramaic
Syriac	ܫ
Arabic	س
Phonemic representation	ʃ (s)
Position in alphabet	21
Numerical value	300
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek	Σ
Latin	S
Cyrillic	С

Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س .^[a] Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s].

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, Ш).

The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.

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