ጸ (ṣa)
The Ge'ez letter ጸ is called ጸደይ (ṣaday). It represents a “alveolar ejective affricate”, which sounds like a forceful <ts> in English. The sound is rare but it appears in languages like Georgian, e.g. წელი (ts’eli) “year” and Hausa, e.g. tsáunìi “mountain”.
Its shape ጸ is derived from the epigraphic character: 𐩳. It correlates to the Arabic letter ص, the Syriac letter ܨ, and the Hebrew letter צ.
Ge’ez words starting with ጸ include ጽባሕ (ṣəbaḥ) "morning", ጽድቅ (ṣədq) "justice", and ጸሓፊ (ṣahāfi) "scribe".
