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U+0161 · LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON

Latin Small Letter S with Caron

  • CodepointU+0161
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
  • Decimal353
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0161 (š) is LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+0160 Š.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0073 s + U+030C ◌̌, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type š

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C5 A12 bytes
UTF-1601611 code unit
UTF-32000001614 bytes
HTML namedšnamed character reference
HTML decimalš
HTML hexš
CSS\161in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0161
JSON\u0161
Python\u0161
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON}by name
Java / C#\u0161
C / C++\u0161universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{161}
Go\u0161
Ruby\u0161
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(353)
URL-encoded%C5%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0073 s + U+030C ◌̌
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0073 s + U+030C ◌̌
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Characters built on š

U+1E67ṧLatin Small Letter S with Caron and Dot Above
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+015BśLatin Small Letter S with Acute U+015CŜLatin Capital Letter S with Circumflex U+015DŝLatin Small Letter S with Circumflex U+015EŞLatin Capital Letter S with Cedilla U+015FşLatin Small Letter S with Cedilla U+0160ŠLatin Capital Letter S with Caron U+0162ŢLatin Capital Letter T with Cedilla U+0163ţLatin Small Letter T with Cedilla U+0164ŤLatin Capital Letter T with Caron U+0165ťLatin Small Letter T with Caron U+0166ŦLatin Capital Letter T with Stroke U+0167ŧLatin Small Letter T with Stroke