Shin (letter)

Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitc languages, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn (ש or שׁ), Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س . Its sound is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s]. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave and Cyrillic С), the Hebrew letter Sin שׂ (also can be spelled Seen) and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (Ш).

Shin (letter) Media

• Proto-Canaanite - shin.svg

  Proto-Canaanite letter shin

• Early Aramaic character - shin.png

  The letter Shin in Paleo-Hebrew

• Shinchangepho.png

  The rapid evolution of kaf, mem, shin from the 13th-8th c are especially helpful to date "les écritures phéniciennes archaïques."

• Cyrillic letter Sha - uppercase and lowercase.svg

  The Cyrillic letter "sha" is sometimes said to derive from the Hebrew letter shin, emphasizing the letters’ similarity.