U+209B "ₛ" Latin Subscript Small Letter S Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ₛ
U+209B "ₛ" Latin Subscript Small Letter S is a typographic glyph used primarily in linguistic, phonetic, and scientific notations to denote a reduced, subscripted version of the letter "s." It belongs to the Superscripts and Subscripts block and is commonly employed in phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, to represent a devoiced or weakly articulated sibilant sound, or in mathematical and chemical formulas as a subscript placeholder. This character ensures precise textual representation of subscripts in digital environments where simple formatting may not be available.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+209B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Subscript Small Letter S |
| Block | Superscripts and Subscripts |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Sub |
| Decomposition Mapping | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ₛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ₛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x82 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x209B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000209B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u209b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |