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2 or the Latin letter S
.
Ƨ was used in the
Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to indicate the second, or falling, tone (IPA: [˧˩]), due to its resemblance to the numeral 2, along with four other letters resembling numbers. (See: Table). In 1986, Ƨ was replaced by the similarly shaped, but more common Z
, when the alphabet was simplified for use in computers.
The proposed
ჷ used in the Laz and Svan languages spoken in the Southern Caucasus).[citation needed
]
Similar letterforms
A similar sign, 𐆓, was used as a fractional Roman numeral, standing for the fraction 1⁄72.
In
Macedonian Cyrillic
, could resemble either a forward or reversed S. The Old Novgorodian birchbark documents have exclusively a reversed version of the letter.
A charge strongly resembling a Ƨ appears in the civic coat of arms borne by the municipality of Haßloch in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.[1]
Reversed S is very often used in languages using the Latin alphabet as a substitute for S, to depict a young child's handwriting.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ƨ | ƨ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE TWO | LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE TWO | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 423 | U+01A7 | 424 | U+01A8 |
| UTF-8 | 198 167 | C6 A7 | 198 168 | C6 A8 |
| Numeric character reference | Ƨ |
Ƨ |
ƨ |
ƨ |
References
- ^ "Haßloch Municipality (Germany)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2023-10-17.