Ampersand

Ampersand
Ampersand
&
﹠, ⅋, ＆, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Logographic; and Ideographic
Language of origin	Latin language
Phonetic usage	none
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
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The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and").^[1]

^ "The Ampersand & More" Archived 4 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine with Kory Stamper, part of the "Ask the Editor" video series at Merriam-Webster.com

[1] "The Ampersand & More" Archived 4 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine with Kory Stamper, part of the "Ask the Editor" video series at Merriam-Webster.com

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