ꭍ

ꭍ U+AB4D, ꭍ LATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH ← ꭌ [U+AB4C] Latin Extended-E ꭎ → [U+AB4E]

Translingual

Symbol

ꭍ

1. (Teuthonista) Used in digraphs to indicate sibilants between lenis (voiced) [s] and fortis [ſ], the latter of which takes a descending tail like ʃ in italic typeface.

Usage notes

Baseline esh and standard long S in italic typeface.

This symbol contrasts with normal ſ in not having a descender in italic typeface. Not all sources use it; some restrict themselves to diacritics on ⟨s⟩ and ⟨ſ ⟩ (IPA [z] and [s]) for the distinction, or use the alternative series ⟨z s σ ß⟩ (IPA [z z̥ s̬ s]).

A similar distinction is made between tailless ꬵ and normal f.