Se or Seh (majuscule: Ս, minuscule: ս;

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

: սե) is the twenty-ninth letter of the

Armenian alphabet The Armenian alphabet (, or , ) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It is one of the three historical alphabets of the South Caucasu ...

. It has a numerical value of 2000. It represents the

voiceless alveolar sibilant The voiceless alveolar fricatives are a type of fricative consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. This refers to a class of sounds, not a single sound. There are at leas ...

(/s/) in both

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and

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. Created by

Mesrop Mashtots Mesrop Mashtots (; , ' 362February 17, 440 AD) was an Armenians, Armenian Linguistics, linguist, composer, Christian theology, theologian, Politician, statesman, and Hymnology, hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic C ...

in the

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, it is homoglyphic to the

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letter U.

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Ս երկաթագիր (V-IX դդ.).svg, Rounded erkat'agir Ս_երկաթագիր_(մինչեւ_XII_դ.).svg, Angular erkat'agir Ս_բոլորգիր_(V-XX_դդ.).svg, Bolorgir Ս_նոտրգիր.svg, Notrgir Ս_շղագիր_(XII-XX_դդ.).svg, Shghagir Ս_handwritten.svg, Handwritten form

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Related characters and other similar characters

* S s : Latin letter S * С с : Cyrillic letter Es * Ⴑ ⴑ ს : Georgian letter Sani * Σ σ ς : Greek letter Sigma * U u : Latin letter U * ꓴ : Lisu letter U

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Armenian letters {{alphabet-stub

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