Unicode Character "ẞ" (U+1E9E)

The character ẞ (Latin Capital Letter Sharp S) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1E9E. It is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (March, 2008). It is HTML encoded as ẞ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Capital Letter Sharp S
Unicode Codepoint U+1E9E
Unicode Version 5.1 (March, 2008)
Block Latin Extended Additional
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Character Case

Case Uppercase
Lowercase character ß (U+00DF)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+1E9E Conversion

HTML (decimal) ẞ
HTML (hex) ẞ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BA%9E
CSS \001E9E
JavaScript, JSON \u1E9E
C, C++, Java \u1E9E
Python \u1E9E
Rust \u{1E9E}
Ruby \u1E9E

How to type "ẞ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 E 9 E. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 1 E 9 E. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0xBA 0x9E
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1E9E
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001E9E

References