U+00DF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant
and its titlecase variant
. The character is also known as Eszett.
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 10 other glyphs. In text U+00DF behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In the German alphabet, the letter ß, called "Eszett" (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt]) or "scharfes S", in English "sharp S", is a consonant that evolved as a ligature of "long s and z" (ſz) and "long s over round s" (ſs). When speaking it is pronounced [s] (see IPA). Since the German orthography reform of 1996, it is used only after long vowels and diphthongs, while ss is written after short vowels. The name eszett comes from the two letters S and Z as they are pronounced in German. In German, it is also called scharfes S (IPA: [ˈʃaɐ̯.fəs ˈʔɛs, ˈʃaː.fəs ˈʔɛs], meaning "sharp S". Its Unicode encoding is U+00DF.
While the letter "ß" has been used in other languages, it is now only used in German. However, it is not used in Switzerland, Liechtenstein or Namibia. German speakers in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, Italy follow the standard rules for ß.
System | Representation |
---|---|
Nº | 223 |
UTF-8 | C3 9F |
UTF-16 | 00 DF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 DF |
URL-Quoted | %C3%9F |
HTML-Escape | ß |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ã |
HTML-Escape | ß |
digraph | ss |
alias | Eszett |
LaTeX | \ss |
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 |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 1.1 |
Unicode Name (na) | LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
Block (blk) | Latin_1_Sup |
General Category (gc) | Lowercase Letter |
Script (sc) | Latin |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
|
Lowercase (Lower) | ✔ |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
|
Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
|
Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
|
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
|
Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
|
Case Folding (cf) |
|
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | ✔ |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✔ |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✔ |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✔ |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✔ |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✔ |
Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
East Asian Width (ea) | Ambiguous |
Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
|
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
InMC (InMC) | — |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
Math (Math) | ✘ |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
|
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
Sentence Break (SB) | Lower |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
|
Script Extension (scx) | Latin |
Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
XID Continue (XIDC) | ✔ |
XID Start (XIDS) | ✔ |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |