LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

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

Lowercase letters

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

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
𝾕	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S WITH DESCENDER S	<compat> LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (U+00DF)