Unicode Character "ſ" (U+017F)

The character ſ (Latin Small Letter Long S) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+017F. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ſ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Small Letter Long S
Unicode Codepoint U+017F
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin Extended-A
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character S (U+0053)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+017F Conversion

HTML (decimal) ſ
HTML (hex) ſ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %C5%BF
CSS \00017F
JavaScript, JSON \u017F
C, C++, Java \u017F
Python \u017F
Rust \u{017F}
Ruby \u017F

How to type "ſ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 1 7 F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 1 7 F. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC5 0xBF
UTF-16 (hex) 0x017F
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000017F

Characters based on "ſ" (U+017F)

References