S
Due to technical restrictions, ſ (long s), S# (Script.NET), and S#arp (S♯arp) redirect here.
S is the nineteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛs/) is spelled ess, or usually es- when part of a compound word; the plural is esses.
Usage
S represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in most languages; it also commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, as in the Portuguese mesa, the English does, or the German sein. It may also represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ], as in Hungarian and German (before p, t).
Codes for computing
In Unicode, the capital S is U+0053 and the lower case s is U+0073.
The ASCII code for capital S is 83 and for lowercase s is 115; or in binary 01010011 and 01110011, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital S is 226 and the code for lowercase s is 162.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "<tt>&#83;</tt>" and "<tt>&#115;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.
Translation
The word "S" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Alemannic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Asturian, Azeri, Min Nan, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, Persian, West Frisian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Gan, Korean, Croatian, Ilokano, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Georgian, Cornish, Swahili, Haitian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mazandarani, Malay, Nahuatl, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norman, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Quechua, Northern Sami, Saterland Frisian, Sicilian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Volapük, Yoruba, Cantonese, Samogitian, Chinese.
Translation(s) in other languages: Greek: S (γράμμα), French: S (lettre), Manx: Shellagh (lettyr), Macedonian: S (Латиница), Dutch: S (letter), Uzbek: S (harf), Russian: S (латиница), Serbian: S (слово латинице), Turkish: S (harf), Ukrainian: S (латиниця).
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