LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

ß

U+00DF

Unicode Block

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

Code

00DF

Code Point

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 Properties

General Category

Letter, Other (Lo)

Bidi Class

L (Left-to-Right)

Combining Class

0 (Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined)

Block

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

Character Encoding

UTF-8

0xC30x9F

UTF-16

0x00DF

UTF-32

0x000000DF

Copy & Paste Codes

Character

Unicode Escape

\u{00DF}

HTML Entity (Decimal)

HTML Entity (Hex)

CSS Code

\00DF

JavaScript

String.fromCodePoint(0x00DF)

Python

chr(0x00DF)