Unicode Character "ß" (U+00DF)

The character ß (Latin Small Letter Sharp S) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00DF. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ß.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Unicode Codepoint U+00DF
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00DF Conversion

HTML (decimal) ß
HTML (hex) ß
HTML (named) ß
URL Escape Code %C3%9F
CSS \0000DF
JavaScript, JSON \u00DF
C, C++, Java \u00DF
Python \u00DF
Rust \u{00DF}
Ruby \u00DF

How to type "ß"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 D F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 D F. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ß
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ß
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ß
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC3 0x9F
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00DF
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000DF

References