AMPERSAND

Property Value
Codepoint U+0026
Literal Character &
Name AMPERSAND
Sketch
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Aliases and
Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
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