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

Unicode Version 18.0

æ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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In English, it is used primarily in historical or loanwords like "encyclopædia" or "archæology," though it has largely been replaced by the separate letters "ae" in modern writing.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
Name
Latin Small Letter Ae
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter A E

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