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Technical information

Symbol	æ
Name	Latin small letter ae
Unicode number	U+00E6
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 7. Letters

Description

The Unicode character "æ", or U+00E6, is known as "Latin Small Letter AE". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a ligature consisting of the Latin letters 'a' and 'e'. In English, the "ae" ligature is used in words derived from Latin or Greek. In other languages such as Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, the "æ" character is considered a letter in its own right, separate from "a" and "e", and is included in their alphabets.

Encoding

HTML Entity	æ
HTML Entity (hex)	æ
HTML Entity (named)	æ
URL Escape Code	%C3%A6
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xA6
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110100110
UTF-16	0x00E6
UTF-32	0x000000E6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00E6"
CSS Code	\00E6
JavaScript	"\u00E6"
Perl	\x{00E6}
Python 2	u"\u00E6"
Python 3	\u00E6
Ruby	\u{00E6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this æ in sentence and in bold like this æ and in italic like this æ.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#230;</span>

span {
    content: "\00E6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

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