Ampersand vs Latin Capital Letter Y With Circumflex
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Property Comparison
| Property | & 0026 | Ŷ 0176 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ampersand | Latin Capital Letter Y With Circumflex |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Latin Extended-A |
| Script | Zyyy | Latn |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Uppercase Letter (Lu) |
| Bidirectional | ON | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0026 | 0176 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0026 | U+0176 |
| HTML Decimal | & | Ŷ |
| HTML Hex | & | Ŷ |
| CSS | \0026 | \0176 |
| JavaScript | \u{26} | \u{176} |
| Python | \u0026 | \u0176 |
| UTF-8 | 26 | c5 b6 |
How to Distinguish
Both Ampersand and Latin Capital Letter Y With Circumflex are in the Latin Extended category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.