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U+1E9E CHARACTER

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
Code Point U+1E9E
Decimal Value 7838
General Category Uppercase Letter (Lu) →
Unicode Block Latin Extended Additional →
Script Latin →
Unicode Version Unicode 5.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E1 BA 9E
UTF-16 Code Unit 1E9E
UTF-32 4 bytes 00001E9E
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 1E 9E LE: 9E 1E
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 1E 9E LE: 9E 1E 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ẞ
HTML Hexadecimal ẞ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \001E9E
JavaScript (ES6) \u1E9E
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u1E9E
JSON Escape \u1E9E
Python \u1E9E
PHP "\u{1E9E}"
Java "\u1E9E"
C / C++ "\u1E9E"
Rust '\u{1e9e}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E1%BA%9E

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class L — Left-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Lowercase Mapping ß U+00DF →

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+1E9E across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
ẞ
Context: A ẞ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
ẞ
Context: A ẞ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
ẞ
Context: A ẞ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
ẞ
Context: A ẞ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1E9E

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