S̩

; like English "sh").

The line is sometimes replaced by a dot, i.e. unicode|Ṣ ṣ.

IPA| [s̩] is also the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a syllabic "s" sound.

Computer encoding

Unicode does not include precomposed characters for unicode|S̩ s̩—they must be represented with a combining diacritic, which may not align properly in some fonts. Nevertheless, the sequence of base character + combining diacritic is given a unique name.