Latin Capital Letter S
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 83 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter s.
- Alt code
- Alt+83
- HTML entity
- S
- Unicode
- U+0053
About this symbol
S comes from shin, the Phoenician letter for the sh sound, whose name meant tooth. The Greeks turned it on its side to make sigma, Σ, and the Romans rounded it into S.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase 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.