Shin (letter) facts for kids
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Shin
Taw →
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| Phonemic representation | ʃ (s) | |||||||||
| Position in alphabet | 21 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 300 | |||||||||
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Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin 
, Hebrew Shin ש, Aramaic Shin 
, Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant or.
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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