U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
U+00DF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 9 other glyphs. In text U+00DF behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In German orthography, the letter ẞ (uppercase) and ß (lowercase), called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt]) and scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the /s/ phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of ⟨s⟩ (Es) and ⟨z⟩ (Zett) in German. The character's Unicode names in English are sharp s and eszett. The Eszett letter is used only in German, and can be typographically replaced with the double-s digraph ⟨ss⟩, if the ß-character is unavailable. In the 20th century, the ß-character was replaced with ss in the spelling of Swiss Standard German (Switzerland and Liechtenstein), while remaining Standard German spelling in other varieties of the German language.
The letter originates as the ⟨sz⟩ digraph as used in late medieval and early modern German orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩. This developed from an earlier usage of ⟨z⟩ in Old and Middle High German to represent a separate sibilant sound from ⟨s⟩; when the difference between the two sounds was lost in the 13th century, the two symbols came to be combined as ⟨sz⟩ in some situations.
Traditionally, ⟨ß⟩ did not have a capital form, although some type designers introduced de facto capitalized variants. In 2017, the Council for German Orthography officially adopted a capital, ⟨ẞ⟩, into German orthography, ending a long orthographic debate.
⟨ß⟩ was encoded by ECMA-94 (1985) at position 223 (hexadecimal DF), inherited by Latin-1 and Unicode (U+00DF ß LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S). The HTML entity ß was introduced with HTML 2.0 (1995). The capital (U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S) was encoded by ISO 10646 in 2008.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 223 |
UTF-8 | C3 9F |
UTF-16 | 00 DF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 DF |
URL-Quoted | %C3%9F |
HTML hex reference | ß |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ß |
HTML named entity | ß |
HTML named entity | ß |
alias | Eszett |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A9 AC |
Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-14 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | A7 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | DF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | DF |
LATEX | \ss |
AGL: Latin-1 | germandbls |
AGL: Latin-2 | germandbls |
AGL: Latin-3 | germandbls |
AGL: Latin-4 | germandbls |
AGL: Latin-5 | germandbls |
Adobe Glyph List | germandbls |
digraph | ss |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S | |
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Latin-1 Supplement | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
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✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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✘ | |
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Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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