Shini

Shini, or Shin (Asomtavruli: Ⴘ; Nuskhuri: ⴘ; Mkhedruli: შ; Mtavruli: Შ; Georgian: შინი, შინ) is the 28th letter of the three Georgian scripts.^[1]

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 900.^[2] Shini commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/,^[3] like the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in "shoe". It is typically romanized with the digraph Sh or with the letter Š.^[4]

Letter

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli	mtavruli

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli

asomtavruli^[5]	nuskhuri^[6]	mkhedruli^[7]

Character information
Preview	Ⴘ		ⴘ		შ		Შ
Unicode name	GEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER SHIN^[8]		GEORGIAN SMALL LETTER SHIN^[9]		GEORGIAN LETTER SHIN^[8]		GEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER SHIN
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	4280	U+10B8	11544	U+2D18	4328	U+10E8	7336	U+1CA8
UTF-8	225 130 184	E1 82 B8	226 180 152	E2 B4 98	225 131 168	E1 83 A8	225 178 168	E1 B2 A8
Numeric character reference	Ⴘ	Ⴘ	ⴘ	ⴘ	შ	შ	Შ	Შ

mkhedruli^[10]

Machavariani, p. 136
Mchedlidze, (2) p. 101
Aronson, Howard Isaac. Georgian: A Reading Grammar. — Columbus, OH : Slavica Publishers, 1990. — p. 18. — ISBN 978-0-89357-207-5
"Transliteration of Georgian" (PDF).
Mchedlidze, I, p. 105
Mchedlidze, I, p. 107
Mchedlidze, I, p. 110
Unicode (1)
Unicode (2)
UNESCO, World Braille Usage, Third Edition, Washington, D.C. p. 45

Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013