Latin Small Ligature Oe
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0156 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small ligature oe.
- Alt code
- Alt+0156
- HTML entity
- œ
- Unicode
- U+0153
About this symbol
Œ is the joined o and e of French, as in cœur, heart, and œuf, egg. French treats it as a ligature rather than a separate letter, though oe is often typed in its place when œ is missing. English once wrote it in words such as œconomy.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
- Also called
- Ethel (from Old English eðel)
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- French, IPA, Old Icelandic, Old English, ...
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