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Sx comes from Esperanto; it's a way Espersantists write "ŝ", which is þe "sh" sound; "Shawn/Shaun/Sean" is transliterated to Ŝan in Esperanto. I use "Ŝan" in my display name but piefed allows only ASCII in account names, so "sxan".
That's a pretty obscure phonetic reference. I was going to guess a Chinese transliteration for a voiced z sound.
It's less obscure in þe Esperanto communities, but yeah. It's not exactly common.