What is Shin (letter)?
'''Shin''' (also spelled '''Šin''' (''šīn'') or '''Sheen''') is the twenty-first letter of the Semitc languages, including Phoenician ''šīn'' 𐤔, [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ''šīn'' (ש or שׁ), Aramaic ''šīn'' 𐡔, Syriac ''šīn'' ܫ, and Arabic ''sīn'' س . Its sound is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s]. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave and Cyrillic С), the Hebrew letter '''Sin''' שׂ (also can be spelled '''Seen''') and the letter ''Sha'' in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (Ш). {{asia-stub}} [[Category:Hebrew alphabet]]