| Unicode Character 'AMPERSAND' (U+0026) |    | 
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | AMPERSAND | 
| Block | Basic Latin | 
| Category | Punctuation, Other [Po] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] | 
| Mirror | N | 
| Index entries | AMPERSAND | 
| Comments | and originally derived from a ligature of 'e' and 't' | 
| See Also | tironian sign et U+204A turned ampersand U+214B heavy ampersand ornament U+1F674 | 
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | & | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | & | 
| HTML Entity (named) | & | 
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +0026 Alt 038 Alt 38 | 
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x26 (26) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100110 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x0026 (0026) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 38 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x00000026 (0026) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 38 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u0026" | 
| Python source code | u"\u0026" | 
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | & | 
| string.toLowerCase() | & | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 24 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | No | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |