ASCII Character &
AmpersandThe ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and". The character in Unicode is U+0026 & AMPERSAND (&, &); this is inherited from the same value in ASCII. In URLs, the ampersand must be replaced by %26 when representing a string character to avoid interpretation as a URL syntax character.
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ASCII Code for &
These are the code points for ampersand in various character setsUnicode for &
The character for ampersand is mapped in Unicode as U+0026| Unicode | U+0026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 38 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0026 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x26 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100110 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 00100110 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0026 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000026 | |
HTML Entities for &
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the ampersand in HTML| HTML Number | & | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | & | |
| HTML Entity | & & | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %26 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =26 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0026" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0026 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0026" | |
| Perl | \x{0026} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0026" | |
| Python 3 | \u0026 | |
| Ruby | \u{0026} |