ß
Technical information
| Symbol | ß | |
| Name | Latin small letter sharp s | |
| Unicode number | U+00DF | |
| Category | Latin-1 Supplement7. Letters | |
| Description | The Unicode character ß, or U+00DF, is known as the "Latin Small Letter Sharp S". This character is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and is categorized as "Letter, Lowercase". Visually, it appears as a letter resembling a lowercase 'b' or 'β'. The sharp S is a unique letter used in the German language. It represents a voiceless s sound, as in 'Straße' (street) and 'groß' (large). Despite its distinctive look, it doesn't have an uppercase form. Instead, it's often capitalized as 'SS' in uppercase or capitalized contexts. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ß | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ß | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ß | |
| URL Escape Code | %C3%9F | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC3 0x9F | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001110011111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x00DF | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000DF |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00DF" | |
| CSS Code | \00DF | |
| JavaScript | "\u00DF" | |
| Perl | \x{00DF} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00DF" | |
| Python 3 | \u00DF | |
| Ruby | \u{00DF} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ß in sentence and in bold like this ß and in italic like this ß.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>ß</span>
span {
content: "\00DF";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana