U+00E6 "æ" Latin Small Letter Ae Unicode Character

U+00E6 "æ" Latin Small Letter Ae is a single grapheme known as a ligature, originally formed from the letters "a" and "e" combined, and it represents a distinct vowel sound in languages such as Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese, where it is considered a separate letter of the alphabet. In English, it is used primarily in historical or loanwords like "encyclopædia" or "archæology," though it has largely been replaced by the separate letters "ae" in modern writing. Its uppercase counterpart is U+00C6 "Æ".

General Properties

Code Point	U+00E6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Ae
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter A E
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	æ
HTML Hex Encoding	æ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC3 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00E6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000E6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00e6

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
Uppercase Code Point	"Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
Titlecase Code Point	"Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower