ÿ

Technical information

Symbol	ÿ
Name	Latin small letter y with diaeresis
Unicode number	U+00FF
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 9. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ÿ, or U+00FF, is known as the "Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of the small letter 'y' with a diaeresis (¨) placed above it. The "ÿ" is used in certain languages, such as Dutch. In digital communications, it represents the 'ÿ' character as used in the spelling of words in these languages. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ÿ
HTML Entity (hex)	ÿ
HTML Entity (named)	ÿ
URL Escape Code	%C3%BF
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xBF
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110111111
UTF-16	0x00FF
UTF-32	0x000000FF

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00FF"
CSS Code	\00FF
JavaScript	"\u00FF"
Perl	\x{00FF}
Python 2	u"\u00FF"
Python 3	\u00FF
Ruby	\u{00FF}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ÿ in sentence and in bold like this ÿ and in italic like this ÿ.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#255;</span>

span {
    content: "\00FF";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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