Unicode Character "ß" U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S

Unicode Version 15.1

ß

Summary

The unicode character "ß" at code point U+00DF is Latin Small Letter Sharp S. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Latin script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ß" is 0xC3 0x9F and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00DF.

General Properties

Code Point U+00DF
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Entity ß
HTML Decimal Encoding ß
HTML Hex Encoding ß
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC3 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00DF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000DF
C/C++/Java Escape \u00df

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Lowercase Yes
Uppercase Code Point "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S
"S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S
Titlecase Code Point "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S
"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
Case Folding "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
NFKC Casefold "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower