LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S

Codepoint

U+017F

Literal Character

ſ

Name

LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S

Sketch

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Decomposition

<compat>, LATIN SMALL LETTER S (U+0073)

Control Character

no

Block

Latin Extended-A

Subblock

European Latin

UTF-8 byte encoding

c5 bf

UTF-16 byte encoding

01 7f (big endian)

HTML Entity

ſ

Perl string literal

\x{17F}

Comments

• in common use in Roman types until the 18th century
• in current use in Fraktur and Gaelic types

See Also

U+00DF: latin small letter sharp s
U+FB05: latin small ligature long s t

Wikipedia

Insular S (en)
Long s (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
ẛ	LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DOT ABOVE	LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S (U+017F) COMBINING DOT ABOVE (U+0307)
ſt	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T	<compat> LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S (U+017F) LATIN SMALL LETTER T (U+0074)