Unicode Character "ẞ" U+1E9E Latin Capital Letter Sharp S
Unicode Version 15.1
ẞ
Summary
The unicode character "ẞ" at code point U+1E9E is Latin Capital Letter Sharp S. It is a character in the Latin Extended Additional block and is part of the Latin script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ẞ" is 0xE1 0xBA 0x9E and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x1E9E.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E9E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Sharp S |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e9e |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ß" U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ß" U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S |
| Simple Case Folding | "ß" U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp 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 Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ß" U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp 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 | Upper |