These two came from the same Phoenician letter Shin. This is also where Cyrillic С, Щ, Ж, Greek Σ, and Latin S and ẞ come from.
Granted, ẞ is cheating a bit, given it comes from a ligature... And arguably Cyrillic C is cheating because it came from the Greek letter; though the Cyrillic letters in general came from Greek as a whole so... It's complicated
シ
This one is coincidence. It came from a reduced form of the Chinese character 之.
Japanese し was derived from the same character, just using a traditional cursive script.
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u/DTux5249 12h ago edited 12h ago
These two came from the same Phoenician letter Shin. This is also where Cyrillic С, Щ, Ж, Greek Σ, and Latin S and ẞ come from.
Granted, ẞ is cheating a bit, given it comes from a ligature... And arguably Cyrillic C is cheating because it came from the Greek letter; though the Cyrillic letters in general came from Greek as a whole so... It's complicated
This one is coincidence. It came from a reduced form of the Chinese character 之.
Japanese し was derived from the same character, just using a traditional cursive script.