U015B

u015B refers to the Unicode code point U+015B, which is the Latin small letter s with acute (ś). It is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is used to represent a softened or palatalized s sound in several orthographies, most notably Polish, where ś denotes a distinct phoneme from ordinary s. The character also appears in Kashubian and Sorbian orthographies and can be found in various transliteration and phonetic notation schemes.

In encoding terms, the code point has decimal value 347. In HTML and XML, it can be written as the decimal character reference ś. In UTF-8, the character is encoded as the two-byte sequence C5 9B; in UTF-16 it is encoded as 01 5B (U+015B). The uppercase counterpart is U+015A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE, used where capitalization is required.

Typography and usage notes: the glyph typically resembles a standard Latin 's' with a diacritic acute mark above the letter. Support for the character depends on font coverage; most modern fonts that include Latin Extended-A provide a glyph for ś. In many Polish texts, ś serves as a separate letter in its own right, distinct from s or other diacritics.

See also: LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE, Polish orthography, Kashubian alphabet, Sorbian alphabets.