German Alphabet Special Characters

List of Alt Codes for special letters(umlaut, eszett) in the German alphabet. Learn how to type German special letters by using their Alt Codes.

Letter	Letter Type	Alt Code
Ä	Uppercase Umlaut (A)	0196
Ö	Uppercase Umlaut (O)	0214
Ü	Uppercase Umlaut (U)	0220
ß	Eszett (ss)	0223
ä	Lowercase Umlaut (a)	0228
ö	Lowercase Umlaut (o)	0246
ü	Lowercase Umlaut (u)	0252

How to type special German letters by using their Alt Codes?

Make sure you switch on the NumLock,
press and hold down the Alt key,
type the Alt Code value of the special German letter, for example, for eszett, type 0223 on the numeric pad,
release the Alt key and you got ß.

*You must type, preceding 0.

** Above mentioned procedure is not aplicable for MacOS.

For more information on how to use charecters, symbols, and emojis please check our How to use Alt-Codes? page.

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Alt-Codes can be typed on Microsoft Operating Systems:

First make sure that numlock is on,
Then press and hold the ALT key,
While keeping ALT key pressed type the code for the symbol that you want and release the ALT key.

Unicode codes can not be typed. Codes can be used within HTML, Java..etc programming languages. To use them in facebook, twitter, textbox or elsewhere just follow the instructions at top.