Latin Capital Letter Sharp S

U+1E9E
BMP Unicode 5.1
Character
Decimal ẞ
Hex ẞ

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+1E9E
Decimal
7838
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
ß U+00DF

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 Sharp S.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ẞ
HTML Hex
ẞ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E1 BA 9E
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
1E 9E
UTF-32 Hex
00001E9E
CSS Escape
\1E9E
JavaScript Escape
\u1E9E
Python Escape
\u1E9E
URL Encoded
%E1%BA%9E
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