す, in hiragana or ス in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Their shapes come from the kanji 寸 and 須, respectively. Both kana represent the sound . In the

Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate ...

, the katakana ス can be written as small ㇲ to represent a final s and is used to emphasize the pronunciation of rather than the normal �(represented in Ainu as ㇱ). * スィ and ズィ are also used to present ''si'' and ''zi'' pronunciations respectively. For example, 'C' is presented as スィー . See also Hepburn romanization.

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

* Full Braille representation * Computer encodings

References

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