# ß U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

German sharp s, called Eszett or scharfes S, a lowercase letter resembling a beta, written as double s (SS) in uppercase, as in Straße.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `ß` |
| Codepoint | U+00DF |
| Name | LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |
| Also known as | Eszett |
| Block | [Latin-1 Supplement](https://unicodekit.com/block/latin-1-supplement) |
| Script | Latin |
| Category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `ß` `ß` |
| CSS | `\DF` |
| JavaScript | `\u00DF` |
| UTF-8 | C3 9F |
| UTF-16 | 00DF |

## Notes

- German
- not used in Swiss High German
- uppercase is "SS" (standard case mapping), alternatively 1E9E
- typographically the glyph for this character can be based on a ligature of 017F with either 0073 or with an old-style glyph for 007A (the latter similar in appearance to 0292). Both forms exist interchangeably today.

## Related characters

- Þ [U+00DE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00DE)
- à [U+00E0 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E0)
- Ý [U+00DD LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00DD)
- á [U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E1)
- Ü [U+00DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/00DC)
- â [U+00E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E2)
- Û [U+00DB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX](https://unicodekit.com/char/00DB)
- ã [U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E3)
- Ú [U+00DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00DA)
- ä [U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E4)
- Ù [U+00D9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00D9)
- å [U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00E5)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/00DF · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/00DF