Samekh

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Phoenician
Hebrew	ס
Aramaic
Syriac	ܣ
Arabic	-
Phonemic representation	s
Position in alphabet	15
Numerical value	60
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek	Ξ
Latin	-
Cyrillic	Ѯ

Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ.

Samekh represents a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. In the Hebrew language, the samekh has the same pronunciation as the left-dotted shin.

The numerical value of samekh is 60.