Latin Small Letter S
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 115 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter s.
- Alt code
- Alt+115
- HTML entity
- s
- Unicode
- U+0073
About this symbol
Until the late eighteenth century the lowercase s had two forms: the long s, ſ, at the start and in the middle of a word, and the round s at the end, as in ſucceſs. Printers dropped the long s, which was easily misread as f, by the early 1800s.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER S
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.