Technical information

Symbol
NameLatin subscript small letter s
Unicode numberU+209B
CategorySubscript and superscriptSubscript letters
DescriptionThe Unicode character ₛ, or U+209B, is known as the "Latin Subscript Small Letter S". This character is a part of the "Superscripts and Subscripts" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category according to the Unicode standard. The Latin Subscript Small Letter S is generally used in scientific and mathematical notation to denote variables, constants, or specific entities that are intimately defined in the given context. As a subscript, it is written slightly lower and often smaller than the regular line of type. This character provides a way to write the lowercase letter "s" in subscript form directly, without the need for special formatting options in a text editor.

Encoding

HTML Entityₛ
HTML Entity (hex)ₛ
URL Escape Code%E2%82%9B
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x82 0x9B
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000010:10011011
UTF-160x209B
UTF-320x0000209B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u209B"
CSS Code\209B
JavaScript"\u209B"
Perl\x{209B}
Python 2u"\u209B"
Python 3\u209B
Ruby\u{209B}

Preview

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

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8347;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\209B";
}

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

References