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kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 23:23:42 JST kaia
@BitBun it's the origin of ß, the interior and final s together
The letter originates as the ⟨sz⟩ digraph used in late medieval and early modern German orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩.