Latin Small Letter Long S
Part of Accented Latin Letters
Latin Small Letter Long S has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ſ
- Unicode
- U+017F
About this symbol
ſ is the long s, the form of s used at the start and in the middle of words in English and other languages until the late eighteenth century, as in Congreſs on the United States Bill of Rights. Its likeness to f made old texts easy to misread, and printers had dropped it by the early 1800s.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- In common use in Roman types until the 18th century
- In current use in Fraktur and Gaelic types
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