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U+1E9E · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S

Latin Capital Letter Sharp S

  • CodepointU+1E9E
  • NameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
  • Decimal7838
  • BlockLatin Extended Additional (U+1E00–U+1EFF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version5.1 (2008)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1E9E (ẞ) is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S, an uppercase letter in the Latin Extended Additional block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).

Its lowercase form is U+00DF ß.

How to type ẞ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BA 9E3 bytes
UTF-161E9E1 code unit
UTF-3200001E9E4 bytes
HTML decimalẞ
HTML hexẞ
CSS\1E9Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u1E9E
JSON\u1E9E
Python\u1E9E
Python\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S}by name
Java / C#\u1E9E
C / C++\u1E9Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1E9E}
Go\u1E9E
Ruby\u1E9E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(7838)
URL-encoded%E1%BA%9Epercent-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+00DFßLatin Small Letter Sharp S U+03B2βGreek Small Letter Beta U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol 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 Extended Additional

All in block →
U+1E98ẘLatin Small Letter W with Ring Above U+1E99ẙLatin Small Letter Y with Ring Above U+1E9AẚLatin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring U+1E9BẛLatin Small Letter Long S with Dot Above U+1E9CẜLatin Small Letter Long S with Diagonal Stroke U+1E9DẝLatin Small Letter Long S with High Stroke U+1E9FẟLatin Small Letter Delta U+1EA0ẠLatin Capital Letter A with Dot Below U+1EA1ạLatin Small Letter A with Dot Below U+1EA2ẢLatin Capital Letter A with Hook Above U+1EA3ảLatin Small Letter A with Hook Above U+1EA4ẤLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Acute