U+00C6 "Æ" Latin Capital Letter Ae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Æ
U+00C6 "Æ" Latin Capital Letter Ae is a typographic ligature representing a single vowel sound, originally developed from the Latin combination of the letters A and E. It is commonly used in various languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese, where it functions as a distinct letter in the alphabet. In English, it appears primarily in loanwords and archaic or formal spellings, such as "encyclopaedia" or "æsthetic," and it also has applications in phonetics to denote the near-open front unrounded vowel sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Ae |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A E |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Æ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Æ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c6 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| Lowercase Code Point | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| Simple Case Folding | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| Case Folding | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |