U+00C6 "Æ" Latin Capital Letter Ae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Æ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Latin Capital Letter Ae
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter A E

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