Æ is the Unicode character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE, code point U+00C6 (decimal 198) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Æ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C3 86.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00C6 |
| Decimal | 198 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 86 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00C6 |
| UTF-32 | 000000C6 |
| HTML decimal | Æ |
| HTML hex | Æ |
| HTML named | Æ |
| CSS | \C6 |
| JavaScript | \u00C6 |
| JSON | \u00C6 |
| Python | \u00C6 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE} |
| Java, C# | \u00C6 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{C6} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00C6 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C3%86 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE |
| Code point | U+00C6 (decimal 198) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Upper and lower case
- æ U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae — Lowercase
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- ¾ U+00BE Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters
- ¿ U+00BF Inverted Question Mark
- À U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A With Grave
- Á U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A With Acute
- Â U+00C2 Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex
- Ã U+00C3 Latin Capital Letter A With Tilde
- Ä U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A With Diaeresis
- Å U+00C5 Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
- Ç U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla
- È U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E With Grave
- É U+00C9 Latin Capital Letter E With Acute
- Ê U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex
- Ë U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E With Diaeresis
- Ì U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I With Grave
- Í U+00CD Latin Capital Letter I With Acute
- Î U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I With Circumflex
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Æ?
- Use the named entity Æ, or Æ (decimal) or Æ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00C6?
- C3 86 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C3%86.
- How do I write U+00C6 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00C6. Python: \u00C6.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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