ß
U+00DF ß

LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
223

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 C3 9F 195 159 2
UTF-16 LE DF 00 223 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 DF 0 223 2
UTF-32 LE DF 00 00 00 223 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 DF 0 0 0 223 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) DF 223 1
Windows-1252 DF 223 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) DF 223 1
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP 8F A9 CE 143 169 206 3
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

ß
ß
ß
\DF
\u00DF
%C3%9F
\u00df
223

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
C3
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
9F
UTF-8: C3 9F · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+00DF

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right

Nearby Characters in Latin-1 Supplement