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

Greek Beta Symbol is U+03D0 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 Beta Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Beta Symbol (U+03D0) 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 Beta Symbol and Latin Small Letter Sharp S the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Beta Symbol is U+03D0 (decimal 976) and Latin Small Letter Sharp S is U+00DF (decimal 223). They are separate codepoints.

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

Greek Beta Symbol (U+03D0) encodes as CF 90 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Sharp S (U+00DF) encodes as C3 9F in UTF-8.

Greek Beta Symbol 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 Beta Symbol

U+03D0

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Latin Small Letter Sharp S

U+00DF

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Beta Symbol	Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Codepoint	`U+03D0`	`U+00DF`
Decimal	`976`	`223`
HTML Entity	`ϐ`	`ß`
HTML Decimal	`ϐ`	`ß`
HTML Hex	`ϐ`	`ß`
UTF-8	`CF 90`	`C3 9F`
UTF-16	`03 D0`	`00 DF`
UTF-32	`000003D0`	`000000DF`
CSS Escape	`\3D0`	`\DF`
JS Escape	`\u03D0`	`\u00DF`
Python Escape	`\u03D0`	`\u00DF`
URL Encoded	`%CF%90`	`%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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