S

Latin Capital Letter S

U+0053
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character S
Decimal S
Hex S

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0053
Decimal
83
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
Na Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
s U+0073

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Capital Letter S.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
S
HTML Hex
S
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
53
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 53
UTF-32 Hex
00000053
CSS Escape
\53
JavaScript Escape
\u0053
Python Escape
\u0053
URL Encoded
S
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