Turned Ampersand ⅋
Symbol Meaning
Ampersand is nearly one of the most popular logograms which stand for a whole word (“et” means a conjunction “and”). Initially this symbol appeared as a combination of two letters “e” and “t”. It grew to change with time, resulting in the fact that today we will barely recognize the old-looking letters.
The classic ampersand & is used not only as a conjunction in writing, but also in computer science as a concatenation operator, to get a reference to a variable, and so on. The inverted logogram that you see on this page can be placed in text for decorative purposes. Its main function is to draw the reader's attention.
The symbol “Turned Ampersand” is included in the “Additional letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.
| Unicode Name | Turned Ampersand |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Additional letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 3.2 (2002) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 214B |
| Simple case change | 214B |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 85 8B | 226 133 139 | 14845323 | 11100010 10000101 10001011 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 4B | 33 75 | 8523 | 00100001 01001011 |
| UTF-16LE | 4B 21 | 75 33 | 19233 | 01001011 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 4B | 0 0 33 75 | 8523 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 01001011 |
| UTF-32LE | 4B 21 00 00 | 75 33 0 0 | 1260453888 | 01001011 00100001 00000000 00000000 |