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Insular S

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The letter (minuscule: ) is an Insular script form of the letter S. It is encoded in Unicode at U+A784 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR S and U+A785 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR S.

Evolution of the Insular s from sigma: ς-s-ʃ-ſ-ꞅ
Writing systemLatin
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S s
  • Ꞅ ꞅ
Time period600s to 800s
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Insular S
Ꞅ ꞅ
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S s
  • Ꞅ ꞅ
Time period600s to 800s
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It should not be confused with the long-legged r, U+027C ɼ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH LONG LEG, which is an obsolete IPA symbol.

References

Insular letters in Unicode[1][2]
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1ACx ◌ᫌ ◌ᫍ ◌ᫎ
U+1D7x
U+1DDx ◌ᷘ
U+204x
U+2E5x
U+A77x
U+A78x
U+A7Dx
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^These characters are spread across the following Unicode blocks: Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (U+1AB0–U+1AFF), Phonetic Extensions (U+1D00–U+1D7F), Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (U+1DC0–U+1DFF), General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F), Supplemental Punctuation (U+2E00-U+2E7F), and Latin Extended-D (U+A720–U+A7FF)

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