What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Beta and Latin Small Letter Sharp S?

Greek Small Letter Beta is U+03B2 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter Sharp S is U+00DF in the Latin-1 Supplement block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Beta?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Beta (U+03B2) is β.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Sharp S?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Sharp S (U+00DF) is ß.

Are Greek Small Letter Beta and Latin Small Letter Sharp S the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Beta is U+03B2 (decimal 946) and Latin Small Letter Sharp S is U+00DF (decimal 223). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Beta and Latin Small Letter Sharp S?

Greek Small Letter Beta (U+03B2) encodes as CE B2 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Sharp S (U+00DF) encodes as C3 9F in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Beta vs Latin Small Letter Sharp S

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Greek Small Letter Beta

U+03B2

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Latin Small Letter Sharp S

U+00DF

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Beta	Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Codepoint	`U+03B2`	`U+00DF`
Decimal	`946`	`223`
HTML Entity	`β`	`ß`
HTML Decimal	`β`	`ß`
HTML Hex	`β`	`ß`
UTF-8	`CE B2`	`C3 9F`
UTF-16	`03 B2`	`00 DF`
UTF-32	`000003B2`	`000000DF`
CSS Escape	`\3B2`	`\DF`
JS Escape	`\u03B2`	`\u00DF`
Python Escape	`\u03B2`	`\u00DF`
URL Encoded	`%CE%B2`	`%C3%9F`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin-1 Supplement`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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