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Ampersand
&
﹠, ⅋, ＆, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵
Usage
Writing system
Latin script
Type
Logographic and Ideographic
Language of origin
Latin language
Unicode codepoint
U+0026
Alphabetical position
(27)
History
Development
𐌄𐌕
ET
et
&
Time period
c. 100 CE to present
Descendants
• ⅋
Sisters
Greek letter ϗ (ligature of κ, α and ι similarly to &) Armenian letter և (ligature of ե and ւ, pronounced /jɛv/; եւ is the Armenian word for "and"); Sindhi letter,۽
Transliteration equivalents
plus sign,+
Variations
﹠, ⅋, ＆, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵
Other
Other letters commonly used with
&C (etC)
Writing direction
Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
The 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".[1]
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