About Latin Small Letter Sharp S
Latin Small Letter Sharp S is the Unicode character ß at codepoint U+00DF in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
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How to Use Latin Small Letter Sharp S
To use the Latin Small Letter Sharp S symbol (ß) in HTML, insert the
entity ß directly into your markup. The decimal entity ß works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\DF';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00DF' evaluates to ß. In Python source, write '\u00DF'.
The character encodes to C3 9F as UTF-8 bytes and 00DF as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 223.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.