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ส so suea

ส (so suea) is a high-class consonant named after เสือ, “tiger”. At the start of a syllable it is /s/, written s in RTGS; at the end of one it is /t̚/ (t).

See it in 61 fontsAll 44 consonants
สส เสือso suea · tiger
Thai name
ส เสือ · so suea
Name word
เสือ, tiger
Class
High class
At the start of a syllable
/s/ · RTGS s
At the end of a syllable
/t̚/ · RTGS t
Unicode
U+0E2A · THAI CHARACTER SO SUA
In HTML
ส or ส
Kedmanee key
L
Pattachote key
M

How it sounds

The everyday high-class s. ซ is its low-class partner.

3 other letters have the same sound at the start of a syllable: ซ so so (low), ศ so sala (high), ษ so ruesi (high).

Easy to mistake for ล lo ling: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a high-class letter gives a rising tone in a live syllable and a low tone in a dead one. Mai ek gives low and mai tho falling; the other two marks are not used.

Syllables with ส and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)สาRising
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelสะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelสากLow
Mai ekส่าLow
Mai thoส้าFalling
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ส

ThaiRTGSMeaning
สวัสดีsawatdihello
สามsamthree
สีsicolour
สวยsuaibeautiful
รสrottaste, flavour

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ส in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.