LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

Property Value
Codepoint U+00DF
Literal Character ß
Name LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
Sketch
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Aliases Eszett
Control Character no
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Subblock ASCII punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding c3 9f
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 df (big endian)
HTML Entity ß
LaTeX expression \ss
Perl string literal \x{DF}
Comments
  • German
  • not used in Swiss High German
  • uppercase is "SS" (standard case mapping), alternatively 1E9E
  • typographically the glyph for this character can be based on a ligature of 017F with either 0073 or with an old-style glyph for 007A (the latter similar in appearance to 0292). Both forms exist interchangeably today.
See Also U+017F: latin small letter long s
U+0292: latin small letter ezh
U+03B2: greek small letter beta
U+1E9E: latin capital letter sharp s
U+A7B5: latin small letter beta
U+A7D7: latin small letter middle scots s