Es (Cyrillic)

Es, слово (Early Cyrillic alphabet)
С с
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[s], [], [z], [ʃ]
History
Development
Ϲ ϲ
  • С с
Other
Associated numbers200 (Cyrillic numerals)
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Es, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book, with an illustration of sweetness (Slasti)

Es (С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".

Coptic icon of St. Mark, clearly showing examples of lunate sigma from which the Cyrillic Es was derived

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