This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+0026Ampersand. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FF06 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
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 (click value to copy)
Nº
65286
UTF-8
EF BC 86
UTF-16
FF 06
UTF-32
00 00 FF 06
URL-Quoted
%EF%BC%86
HTML hex reference
&
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
&
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A1 AE
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A1 AE
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
81 95
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
A3 A6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A1 AE
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A1 F5
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A1 F5
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A1 F5
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
A3 A6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
A3 A6
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
A3 A6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
A3 A6
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 23 26 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 75 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 23 26 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
DA 36
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
81 95
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
81 95
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
81 95
Adobe Glyph List
ampersandmonospace
RFC 5137
\u'FF06'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\uFF06
C and C++
\uFF06
C#
\uFF06
CSS
\00FF06
Excel
=UNICHAR(65286)
Go
\uFF06
JavaScript
\uFF06
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{ff06}
JSON
\uFF06
Java
\uFF06
Lua
\u{FF06}
Matlab
char(65286)
Perl
"\x{FF06}"
PHP
\u{ff06}
PostgreSQL
U&'\FF06'
PowerShell
`u{FF06}
Python
\uFF06
Ruby
\u{ff06}
Rust
\u{ff06}
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