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San (uppercase , lowercase ) was a letter of the Greek Alphabet , appearing between Pi and Qoppa in alphabetical order, corresponding in position to the Phoenician Tsade , but its name comes from Shin . It usually had a phonemic value of , but eventually became disused in favour of Sigma . The latest attested use is in the 6th Century BC . It was also used in Arcado-Cypriot as , replacing a previous Labio-velar before a front vowel, where other dialects replaced it with Tau . The Phoenician or the Greek letter was loaned into the Old Italic Alphabet s (, transcribed as Ś), in the archaic Etruscan alphabet retaining its M-shape but from the 6th century BC changing its aspect to a shape similar to that of the D-rune . |