Shini
28th letter of the three Georgian scripts
Shini, or Shin (Asomtavruli: Ⴘ; Nuskhuri: ⴘ; Mkhedruli: შ; Mtavruli: Შ; Georgian: შინი, შინ) is the 28th letter of the three Georgian scripts.
In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 900. Shini commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in "shoe". It is typically romanized with the digraph Sh or with the letter Š.
01Letter
| asomtavruli | nuskhuri | mkhedruli | mtavruli |
|---|---|---|---|
Three-dimensional
| asomtavruli | nuskhuri | mkhedruli |
|---|---|---|
Stroke order
| asomtavruli | nuskhuri | mkhedruli |
|---|---|---|
02Computer encodings
| Preview | Ⴘ | ⴘ | შ | Შ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | GEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER SHIN | GEORGIAN SMALL LETTER SHIN | GEORGIAN LETTER SHIN | GEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER SHIN | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 4280 | U+10B8 | 11544 | U+2D18 | 4328 | U+10E8 | 7336 | U+1CA8 |
| UTF-8 | 225 130 184 | E1 82 B8 | 226 180 152 | E2 B4 98 | 225 131 168 | E1 83 A8 | 225 178 168 | E1 B2 A8 |
| Numeric character reference | Ⴘ | Ⴘ | ⴘ | ⴘ | შ | შ | Შ | Შ |
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Shini”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Mkhedruli sh.svg by Created by გიგა., Public domain
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