LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (ß)

ß

Copy Character

Unicode Block

C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)

Unicode Code

U+00DF

Codepoint

223

Aliases

Eszett

Notes

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.

Character Encoding

UTF-8

0xC30x9F

UTF-16

0x00DF

UTF-32

0x000000DF

Copy & Paste Codes

Unicode Escape

\u{00DF}

HTML Entity (Decimal)

HTML Entity (Hex)

CSS Code

\00DF

JavaScript/JSON

String.fromCodePoint(0x00DF)

Python

chr(0x00DF)

Ruby/PHP

chr(0x00DF)

Unix, C, PHP, JAVA

0x00DF

Perl

chr(0x00DF)

URL Encoded

%00df