“ß” U+00DF: Latin Small Letter Sharp S

ℹ️ About

The Latin Small Letter Sharp S (ß), also known as Eszett, is unique to the German alphabet. It represents the voiceless alveolar fricative and originated as a ligature of long s (ſ) and z (ʒ). In Unicode, it is located in the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+00DF). While historically it lacked an uppercase counterpart, a Capital Sharp S (ẞ) was officially adopted into Unicode at U+1E9E in 2008.

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