Ampersand vs Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
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Property Comparison
| Property | & 0026 | ȸ 0238 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ampersand | Latin Small Letter Db Digraph |
| 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 | 0238 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0026 | U+0238 |
| HTML Decimal | & | ȸ |
| HTML Hex | & | ȸ |
| CSS | \0026 | \0238 |
| JavaScript | \u{26} | \u{238} |
| Python | \u0026 | \u0238 |
| UTF-8 | 26 | c8 b8 |
How to Distinguish
Both Ampersand and Latin Small Letter Db Digraph 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.