Æ

Technical information

Symbol	Æ
Name	Latin capital letter ae
Unicode number	U+00C6
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 5. Letters

Description

The Unicode character Æ, or U+00C6, is known as the "Latin Capital Letter AE". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Uppercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphical representation of the Latin script ligature AE, used in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic. It represents a phoneme that originated from a Latin diphthong. In English and French typography, it's also used in certain traditional spellings or in loanwords. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity	Æ
HTML Entity (hex)	Æ
HTML Entity (named)	Æ
URL Escape Code	%C3%86
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0x86
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110000110
UTF-16	0x00C6
UTF-32	0x000000C6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00C6"
CSS Code	\00C6
JavaScript	"\u00C6"
Perl	\x{00C6}
Python 2	u"\u00C6"
Python 3	\u00C6
Ruby	\u{00C6}

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>&#198;</span>

span {
    content: "\00C6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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