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U+00DF · LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

Latin Small Letter Sharp S

CodepointU+00DF
NameLATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
Decimal223
BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptLatin
CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`C3 9F`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`00DF`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000000DF`	4 bytes
HTML named	`ß`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`ß`
HTML hex	`ß`
CSS	`\DF`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u00DF`
JSON	`\u00DF`
Python	`\u00DF`
Python	`\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u00DF`
C / C++	`\u00DF`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{DF}`
Go	`\u00DF`
Ruby	`\u00DF`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(223)`
URL-encoded	`%C3%9F`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+03B2βGreek Small Letter Beta U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol U+1E9EẞLatin Capital Letter Sharp S U+1D6C3𝛃Mathematical Bold Small Beta U+1D6FD𝛽Mathematical Italic Small Beta U+1D737𝜷Mathematical Bold Italic Small Beta U+1D771𝝱Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Beta U+1D7AB𝞫Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Beta U+13F0ᏰCherokee Letter Ye U+A7B5ꞵLatin Small Letter Beta U+A7D6ꟖLatin Capital Letter Middle Scots S

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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

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