S

S represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in most languages; it also commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, as in the Portuguese mesa or the English does. It is often used at the end of an English word to denote the plural, such as in dogs or pages. It may also represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ], as in Portuguese, Hungarian, English and German (before p, t).

In Unicode, the capital S is U+0053 and the lower case s is U+0073.

The EBCDIC code for capital S is 226 and the code for lowercase s is 162.

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