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Ampersand
&
∧, ۽, ⅋, ＆, et, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵, Ɛ̸,
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Logographic and Ideographic
Language of origin	Latin language
Unicode value	U+0026
Alphabetical position	(27)
History
Development	𐌄𐌕 ET et &
Time period	~100 to present
Descendants	• ⅋
Sisters	Ϗ/ϗ (ligature of κ, α and ι in a similar fashion to &)
Transliteration equivalents	+ ۽ ∧
Variations	∧, ۽, ⅋, ＆, et, 🙰, 🙱, 🙲, 🙳, 🙴, 🙵, Ɛ̸,
Other
Other letters commonly used with	&C (etC)
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The ampersand (&), also referred to as the and sign, is a logogram (a diagram standing for a word).

It represents the Latin conjunction et, which means and. The ampersand 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.^[1]

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

In everyday writing, the ampersand is sometimes written like a reversed 3 with a vertical line through it.^[2]

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