U+FE60 "﹠" Small Ampersand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE60 "﹠" Small Ampersand is a small variant of the standard ampersand symbol, typically used as a typographic ligature representing the word "and". It occupies the U+FE60 code point within the Small Form Variants block, a range dedicated to proportional-width versions of punctuation and symbols intended for vertical text, such as in traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Mongolian scripts. Unlike the full-size ampersand, this character is scaled down to align with the visual proportions of other small variant glyphs, allowing it to integrate seamlessly into vertical layout environments while retaining its familiar conjunctive meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE60 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Ampersand |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | "&" U+0026 Ampersand |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe60 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "&" U+0026 Ampersand |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "&" U+0026 Ampersand |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |