U+FB05 "ſt" Latin Small Ligature Long S T Unicode Character
U+FB05 "ſt" Latin Small Ligature Long S T is a typographic ligature representing the combination of a long s (ſ) and a t, historically used in early modern printing, particularly in English and other European languages from the Renaissance through the 18th century. This ligature was employed to streamline the typesetting of common letter pairs, and its appearance is distinct from the regular "st" ligature (such as U+FB06) because it specifically uses the long s form, which resembles an f without the crossbar. The character is included in the Unicode standard to support the faithful digital reproduction of historical texts and manuscripts, ensuring that such typographic conventions can be accurately represented in modern electronic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB05 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Long S T |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ſ" U+017F Latin Small Letter Long S "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ſt |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ſt |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb05 |