Latin Small Letter Ae
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0230 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter ae.
- Alt code
- Alt+0230
- HTML entity
- æ
- Unicode
- U+00E6
About this symbol
Æ, called ash, was a letter of Old English, named after the runic letter for the same sound. It is still a letter of Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, and in English it survives in spellings such as encyclopædia and in phonetics, where it stands for the a in cat.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
- Also called
- Latin small ligature ae (1.1), Ash (from Old English æsc)
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Old English, French, IPA
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