Sho (letter)

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Image:Greek alphabet Sho.svg
Greek alphabet
Αα Alpha	Νν Nu
Ββ Beta	Ξξ Xi
Γγ Gamma	Οο Omicron
Δδ Delta	Ππ Pi
Εε Epsilon	Ρρ Rho
Ζζ Zeta	Σσ Sigma
Ηη Eta	Ττ Tau
Θθ Theta	Υυ Upsilon
Ιι Iota	Φφ Phi
Κκ Kappa	Χχ Chi
Λλ Lambda	Ψψ Psi
Μμ Mu	Ωω Omega
Obsolete letters
Ϝϝ Digamma	Ϸϸ Sho
Ϛϛ Stigma	Ϙϙ Qoppa
Ϻϻ San	Ϡϡ Sampi
Greek diacritics

Sho (majuscule Ϸ, minuscule ϸ) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the Bactrian language^[1]. It probably represented a sound similar to English "sh" (IPA: /ʃ/).

It is similar in appearance to Latin thorn (þ).

[edit] Computer encoding

Sho was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003).

Appearance	Code points	Name
Ϸ	U+03F7	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO
ϸ	U+03F8	GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO

[edit] References

1. ^ Everson, M. and Sims-Williams, N. (2002) “Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS”，ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2411.

ar:شو (حرف إغريقي)

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