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

Latin Capital Letter Sharp S is U+1E9E in the Latin Extended Additional 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 Latin Capital Letter Sharp S?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Sharp S (U+1E9E) is ẞ.

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 Latin Capital Letter Sharp S and Latin Small Letter Sharp S the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Capital Letter Sharp S is U+1E9E (decimal 7838) and Latin Small Letter Sharp S is U+00DF (decimal 223). They are separate codepoints.

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

Latin Capital Letter Sharp S (U+1E9E) encodes as E1 BA 9E in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Sharp S (U+00DF) encodes as C3 9F in UTF-8.

Latin Capital Letter Sharp S 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.

ẞ

Latin Capital Letter Sharp S

U+1E9E

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Latin Small Letter Sharp S

U+00DF

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Capital Letter Sharp S	Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Codepoint	`U+1E9E`	`U+00DF`
Decimal	`7838`	`223`
HTML Entity	`ẞ`	`ß`
HTML Decimal	`ẞ`	`ß`
HTML Hex	`ẞ`	`ß`
UTF-8	`E1 BA 9E`	`C3 9F`
UTF-16	`1E 9E`	`00 DF`
UTF-32	`00001E9E`	`000000DF`
CSS Escape	`\1E9E`	`\DF`
JS Escape	`\u1E9E`	`\u00DF`
Python Escape	`\u1E9E`	`\u00DF`
URL Encoded	`%E1%BA%9E`	`%C3%9F`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Latin Extended Additional`	`Latin-1 Supplement`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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