Ampersand facts for kids

&
	Ampersand
Punctuation
apostrophe	’ '
brackets	[ ] ( ) { } ⟨ ⟩
colon	:
comma	, ، 、
dash	‒ – — ―
ellipsis	… ... . . . ⋯ ᠁ ฯ
exclamation mark	!
full stop, period	.
guillemets	‹ › « »
hyphen	‐
hyphen-minus	-
question mark	?
quotation marks	‘ ’ “ ” ' ' " "
semicolon	;
slash, stroke, solidus	/ ⧸ ⁄
Word dividers
interpunct	·
space
General typography
ampersand	&
asterisk	*
at sign	@
backslash	\
basis point	‱
bullet	•
caret	^
dagger	† ‡ ⹋
degree	°
ditto mark	” 〃
equals sign	=
inverted exclamation mark	¡
inverted question mark	¿
komejirushi, kome, reference mark	※
multiplication sign	×
number sign, pound, hash	#
numero sign	№
obelus	÷
ordinal indicator	º ª
percent, per mil	% ‰
pilcrow	¶
plus, minus	+ −
plus-minus, minus-plus	± ∓
prime	′ ″ ‴
section sign	§
tilde	~
underscore, understrike	_
vertical bar, pipe, broken bar	\| ‖ ¦
Intellectual property
copyright	©
copyleft	🄯
sound-recording copyright	℗
registered trademark	®
service mark	℠
trademark	™
Currency
currency sign	¤
Uncommon typography
asterism	⁂
fleuron, hedera	❧
index, fist	☞
interrobang	‽
irony punctuation	⸮
lozenge	◊
tie	⁀
Related
	Diacritics; Logic symbols; ; Whitespace characters;
In other scripts
	Chinese; Hebrew; Japanese; Korean;
	Category; Book;
	v; t; e;

Ampersand
	&
	﹠, ∧, ۽, ⅋, ＆, et, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵, Ɛ̸,
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Logographic; and Ideographic
Language of origin	Latin language
Phonetic usage	/et/; /æn(d)/; /æm.pə(ɹ).sænd/
Unicode value	U+0026
Alphabetical position	(27)
History
Development	𐌄𐌕 ET et &; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Time period	~100 to present
Descendants	• ⅋
Sisters	ϯ (ligature of ⲧ and ⲓ in a similar fashion to &)
Transliteration equivalents	+; ۽; ∧
Variations	﹠, ∧, ۽, ⅋, ＆, et, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵, Ɛ̸,
Other
Other letters commonly used with	&C (etC)
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The ampersand ("&") is a logogram.

It represents the Latin conjunction et, meaning "and". The ampersand's symbol is not only a logogram, but also a ligature. It joins the old handwritten Latin letters e and t of the word et, so that the word is represented as a single glyph.

With a c added on it means "et cetera", "and so on".

A German version of et cetera (Abkürzung für "et cetera" )

Images for kids

A handwritten plus sign used, like ampersand, to mean 'and'