U+0026 Ampersand
U+0026 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as and.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0026 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “ampersand” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: and, et.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and").
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 38 |
| UTF-8 | 26 |
| UTF-16 | 00 26 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 26 |
| URL-Quoted | %26 |
| HTML hex reference | & |
| HTML named entity | & |
| HTML named entity | & |
| HTML named entity | & |
| HTML named entity | & |
| alias | and |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 26 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 50 |
| LATEX | \& |
| AGL: Latin-1 | ampersand |
| AGL: Latin-2 | ampersand |
| AGL: Latin-3 | ampersand |
| AGL: Latin-4 | ampersand |
| AGL: Latin-5 | ampersand |
| Adobe Glyph List | ampersand |
| digraph | & |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| AMPERSAND | |
| — | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Ampersand | |
| ✘ | |
| Ampersand | |
| Ampersand | |
| ✘ | |
| Ampersand | |
| Ampersand | |
| Ampersand | |
| Ampersand | |
| Ampersand | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Ampersand | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Ampersand | |
| Yes | |
| Ampersand | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Ampersand | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Ampersand | |
| R |