U00C6

U+00C6 is the Unicode code point for the Latin capital letter AE (Æ). It represents the capitalized form of the AE ligature, with the corresponding lowercase form being U+00E6, LATIN SMALL LETTER AE. The character originated as a ligature of A and E in Latin script and has since become a distinct letter in several northern European alphabets.

In practice, Æ is used as a separate letter in Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic orthographies, where it functions like any other alphabetic character rather than a simple digraph. It appears in common words and proper names within those languages and is often considered a single typographic unit rather than two adjacent letters. In many other languages, Æ may be treated as a ligature or as a sequence of A and E depending on typographic or orthographic conventions.

Encoding and representations: In Unicode, the character is named LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE. Its decimal code point is 198. In HTML, it can be represented by the named entity Æ or the numeric reference Æ. In UTF-8, U+00C6 is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC3 0x86, and in UTF-16 as 0x00C6. In plain text, users may sometimes substitute "Ae" if the glyph is unavailable, though this does not capture the single-letter status of the character in languages that treat Æ as a distinct letter.