س

The Arabic letter س sīn /s/ (Arabic: سِينْ, sīn or seen/siːn/) is the 12th letter in the common Hijā'i order, and the 15th letter in the Abjadi order (corresponding to the 15th letter Phoenician letter Samekh). Based on Semitic linguistics, Samekh has no surviving descendant in the Arabic alphabet, and that sīn is derived from Phoenicianšīn 𐤔 rather than Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, but unlike the Aramaic𐡔‎‎ sīn/šīn and the Hebrewשsīn/šīn, Arabic سsīn/s/ is considered a completely separate letter from شšīn/ʃ/, and is written thus: