Ampersand vs Latin Letter Wynn
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Property Comparison
| Property | & 0026 | ƿ 01BF |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ampersand | Latin Letter Wynn |
| Category | Latin Extended | Latin Extended |
| Block | Basic Latin | Latin Extended-B |
| Script | Zyyy | Latn |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Bidirectional | ON | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0026 | 01BF |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0026 | U+01BF |
| HTML Decimal | & | ƿ |
| HTML Hex | & | ƿ |
| CSS | \0026 | \01BF |
| JavaScript | \u{26} | \u{1BF} |
| Python | \u0026 | \u01bf |
| UTF-8 | 26 | c6 bf |
How to Distinguish
Both Ampersand and Latin Letter Wynn 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.