The first letter of the word Shabbat is SHIN. It kind of looks like a lowercase “w” because it has 3 arms. We remember this letter as SHALOSH SHIN. That’s because the number 3 in Hebrew is Shalosh and SHIN has those 3 arms. There is a dot right above the arm furthest to the right. SHIN makes a “sh” sound like shark or what you would say if you were telling someone to be quiet. In Hebrew, unlike English, there are a few letters that have a sound that combines two English letters…”sh,” “ts,” and “ch.”