U+017F "ſ" Latin Small Letter Long S Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+017F "ſ" Latin Small Letter Long S is a historical typographic form of the lowercase letter s, which was commonly used in Western printing from the medieval period through the early 19th century. Unlike the modern round or short s (s), the long s resembles a lowercase f but without a full crossbar, and it was typically used at the beginning or within a word, while the short s was reserved for final positions. Its decline in English and other languages came with shifting printing conventions, and today it is primarily studied in historical texts, paleography, and digital typography, where its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate representation of older documents.
General Properties
Code Point
U+017F
Name
Latin Small Letter Long S
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ſ
HTML Hex Encoding
ſ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x017F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000017F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u017f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin