AMPERSAND

Codepoint

U+0026

Literal Character

&

Name

AMPERSAND

Sketch

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Aliases

and

Control Character

no

Block

Basic Latin

Subblock

ASCII punctuation and symbols

UTF-8 byte encoding

26

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 26 (big endian)

HTML Entity

&

LaTeX expression

\&

Perl string literal

\x{26}

Comments

• originally derived from a ligature of 'e' and 't'

See Also

U+204A: tironian sign et
U+214B: turned ampersand
U+1F674: heavy ampersand ornament

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
﹠	SMALL AMPERSAND	<small> AMPERSAND (U+0026)
＆	FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND	<wide> AMPERSAND (U+0026)