U+0026 AMPERSAND: & – Unicode

U+0026 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0026 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “ampersand” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ampersand, 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 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	&AMP
HTML named entity	&AMP;
HTML named entity	&amp
HTML named entity	&
alias	and
L^AT_EX	\&
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

Latin Small Letter Um

Elsewhere

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Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	AMPERSAND
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Other Punctuation
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Ampersand
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Ampersand
Lowercase Mapping	Ampersand
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Ampersand
Uppercase Mapping	Ampersand
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Ampersand
Titlecase Mapping	Ampersand
Case Folding	Ampersand
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Ampersand
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Ampersand
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Ampersand
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Narrow
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Ampersand
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R

U+0026 Ampersand

Representations

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Confusables

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