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===Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet=== *ſ : Latin letter [[long s]], an obsolete variant of s *ẜ ẝ : Various forms of long s were used for medieval [[scribal abbreviation]]s.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf|title=L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS|date=2006-01-30|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Peter|last2=Baker|first3=António|last3=Emiliano|first4=Florian|last4=Grammel|first5=Odd Einar|last5=Haugen|first6=Diana|last6=Luft|first7=Susana|last7=Pedro|first8=Gerd|last8=Schumacher|first9=Andreas|last9=Stötzner|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919051622/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref> *ẞ ß : [[ß|German Eszett]] or "sharp S", derived from a ligature of long s followed by either s or z *S with [[diacritic]]s: [[Ś|Ś ś]] [[Ṡ|Ṡ ṡ ẛ]] [[Ṩ|Ṩ ṩ]] [[Ṥ|Ṥ ṥ]] [[Ṣ|Ṣ ṣ]] [[S̩|S̩ s̩]] [[Ꞩ|Ꞩ ꞩ]] Ꟊ ꟊ<ref name="L219179">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19179-n5044-tau-gallicum.pdf|title=L2/19-179: Proposal for the addition of four Latin characters for Gaulish|date=2019-05-26|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Chris|last2=Lilley}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=L2/22-113R: Unicode request for two BMP Latin characters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22113r-two-latin-chars.pdf|date=2022-07-09|first=Kirk|last=Miller}}</ref> [[Ŝ|Ŝ ŝ]] [[Ṧ|Ṧ ṧ]] [[Š|Š š]] [[Ş|Ş ş]] [[S-comma|Ș ș]] [[S̈|S̈ s̈]] [[ᶊ]] [[Ȿ|Ȿ ȿ]] ᵴ<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03174r2-mid-tilde.pdf|title=L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS|date=2003-09-30|first=Peter|last=Constable|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011013938/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03174r2-mid-tilde.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref> [[ᶳ]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf|title=L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS|date=2004-04-19|first=Peter|last=Constable|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011014355/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref> *ₛ : Subscript small s was used in the [[Uralic Phonetic Alphabet]] prior to its formal standardization in 1902.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09028-n3571-upa-additions.pdf|title=L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet|date=2009-01-27|first1=Klaas|last1=Ruppel|first2=Tero|last2=Aalto|first3=Michael|last3=Everson|access-date=2018-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011014359/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09028-n3571-upa-additions.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[ˢ]] : Modifier letter small s is used for phonetic transcription. *ꜱ : Small capital S was used in the Icelandic [[First Grammatical Treatise]] to mark [[gemination]].<ref name="auto"/> *Ʂ ʂ : S with hook, used for writing [[Mandarin Chinese]] using the early draft version of [[pinyin]] romanization during the mid-1950s<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17013-n4782-latin.pdf|title=L2/17-013: Proposal to encode three uppercase Latin letters used in early Pinyin|date=2017-01-16|first1=Andrew|last1=West|author-link=Andrew West (linguist)|first2=Eiso|last2=Chan|first3=Michael|last3=Everson|author-link3=Michael Everson|access-date=2019-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226054908/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17013-n4782-latin.pdf|archive-date=2018-12-26|url-status=live}}</ref> *Ƨ ƨ : Latin letter [[Ƨ|reversed S]] (used in [[Standard Zhuang|Zhuang]] transliteration) * 𝼩 : Latin small letter s with mid-height left hook was used by the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] in the early 20th century for [[romanization]] of the [[Malayalam]] language.<ref name="L221156">{{Cite web|title=L2/21-156: Unicode request for legacy Malayalam|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21156-legacy-malayalam.pdf|date=2021-07-16|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Neil|last2=Rees}}</ref> *[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]-specific symbols related to S: {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{IPA link|ɧ}}{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} {{IPA link|ʂ}} * Para-IPA version of the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] fricative ɕ:<ref name="L221041">{{Cite web|title=L2/21-041: Unicode request for additional para-IPA letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21041-add-para-ipa-ltr.pdf|date=2021-01-11|first=Kirk|last=Miller}}</ref> 𝼞 𐞺 *Ꞅ ꞅ : [[Insular script|Insular]] S *Ꟗ ꟗ : Used in [[Middle Scots]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=L2/19-180R: Proposal to add two characters for Middle Scots to the UCS|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19180r-n5045r-middle-scots-s.pdf|date=2019-04-25|first=Michael|last=Everson}}</ref> *Ꟙ ꟙ : Latin letter Sigmoid S was used in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[palaeography]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=L2/20-269: Proposal to add two SIGMOID S characters for mediaeval palaeography|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20269-n5146-sigmoid-s.pdf|date=2020-10-01|first=Michael|last=Everson}}</ref>
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