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U+00DF CHARACTER

LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
Code Point U+00DF
Decimal Value 223
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) →
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement →
Script Latin →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes C3 9F
UTF-16 Code Unit 00DF
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000DF
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 DF LE: DF 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 DF LE: DF 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ß
HTML Hexadecimal ß
HTML Named Entity ß
CSS Escape \0000DF
JavaScript (ES6) \u00DF
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00DF
JSON Escape \u00DF
Python \u00DF
PHP "\u{DF}"
Java "\u00DF"
C / C++ "\u00DF"
Rust '\u{df}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C3%9F

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00DF across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
ß
Context: A ß Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
ß
Context: A ß Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
ß
Context: A ß Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
ß
Context: A ß Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+00DF

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