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Glyph for U+00DF
Source: Noto Sans

U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S

U+00DF was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter SGlyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter SGlyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S. The character is also known as Eszett.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+00DF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 9 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt]) or 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⟩, as an acceptable variant in German orthography, ending a long orthographic debate.

Lowercase ⟨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 ⟨ẞ⟩ was encoded by Unicode in 2008 at (U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S).

Representations

System Representation
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 &szlig
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
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) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S Glyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
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)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
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) Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
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)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R