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アンパサンド

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アンパサンド

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Also known as ampersand, epershand, ASCII 38, Unicode 38, U+0026, amperse and, ligature et

The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram , representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the word (Latin for ).

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It sits within the topics Commons link from Wikidata, Graphemes and Latin-script letters.

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Grapheme.letter
&
Grapheme.imagesize
200px
Grapheme.imagealt
Variations of the Ampersand in different fonts.
Grapheme.script
Latin script
Grapheme.type
Logographic
Grapheme.typedesc
and Ideographic
Grapheme.language
Latin language
Grapheme.unicode
U+0026
Grapheme.alphanumber
(27)
Grapheme.fam1
𐌄𐌕
Grapheme.fam2
ET
Grapheme.fam3
et
Grapheme.fam4
class=skin-invert-image|20px|ɛt (Some modern fonts, like Trebuchet MS, employ ampersand characters that reveal its origin)
Grapheme.fam5
class=skin-invert-image|20px|eτ
Grapheme.fam6
class=skin-invert-image|20px|& (italic, 1735)
Grapheme.fam7
class=skin-invert-image|20px|& in modern handwriting
Grapheme.usageperiod
to present
Grapheme.children

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Wikidata facts

Image
Circle of ampersands.png
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Commons category
Ampersand
Unicode character
Commons gallery
Ampersand
code
.-...
TeX string
\&
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Article · 日本語

アンパサンド(&, 英語: ampersand)は、並立助詞「…と…」を意味する記号である。ラテン語で「…と…」を表す接続詞 "et" の合字を起源とする。現代のフォントでも、Trebuchet MS など一部のフォントでは、"et" の合字であることが容易にわかる字形を使用している。

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